Presidents and Prophets: The Story of America's Presidents and the LDS Church is the title of a book, talk CD, and DVD documentary by Michael K. Winder

Michael K. Winder

Michael Kent Winder ; is an American historian, businessman, and politician. He was elected to be the seventh mayor of West Valley City, Utah on November 3, 2009 with 76% of the vote over opponent Kevin Fayles. Four years earlier he was elected to an at-large seat on the West Valley City Council...

, a member of the Utah Board of State History. All three were published by Covenant Communications, a division of Salt Lake City based Deseret Book

Deseret Book

Deseret Book is the largest Latter-day Saint book publisher and also owns a chain of LDS bookstores in the western United States. Over 150 people work in its Salt Lake City headquarters...

 in September 2007. Published during the presidential candidacy of former Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

 governor Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney

Willard Mitt Romney is an American businessman and politician. He was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.The son of George W...

, they provide historical context for the relationship between the Mormons

Mormons

The Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, a religion started by Joseph Smith during the American Second Great Awakening. A vast majority of Mormons are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while a minority are members of other independent churches....

 and the American Presidency.

The book has 43 chapters, one for each president from George Washington

George Washington

George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...

 to George W. Bush

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

. Each chapter explores the relationship between a President of the United States

President of the United States

The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

 and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Political figures, such as Utah Senator Orrin Hatch

Orrin Hatch

Orrin Grant Hatch is the senior United States Senator for Utah and is a member of the Republican Party. Hatch served as the chairman or ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1993 to 2005...

 (a member of the LDS Church), as well as academics, such as the University of Florida

University of Florida

The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

's Kenneth Wald, have praised it.

The documentary includes interviews with dozens of experts who share their experiences or stories they know about the interactions between the Mormons and the Presidents of the United States. Academics such as Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

's Richard Bushman

Richard Bushman

Richard Lyman Bushman is an American historian and Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University. He is currently the Howard W. Hunter Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University...

 participate, as do politicos such as U.S. Senator Bob Bennett

Robert Foster Bennett

Robert Foster "Bob" Bennett is a former United States Senator from Utah and a member of the Republican Party. In 2006, Bennett was tapped to serve on the Senate Republican Leadership Team as Counsel to the Minority Leader, United States Senator Mitch McConnell...

 and former Senator Jake Garn

Jake Garn

Edwin Jacob "Jake" Garn is an American politician, a member of the Republican Party, and served as a U.S. Senator representing Utah from 1974 to 1993...

. Mike Winder narrates.

The talk CD is a one-hour "fireside" address given by Mike Winder summarizing some of the more colorful anecdotes in the book.