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Where Does Your Favorite President Rank?
Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House
Free Press
September 2005
320 pages ISBN: 0743274083 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
Based on a completely new nationwide survey prepared
exclusively for this edition of Presidential Leadership,
two of America's most prominent institutions, The Wall
Street Journal and the Federalist Society, explore just
what it is that makes a president great and then rank each
from best to worst. Now with updated chapters on Bush
and "Leadership in the Midst of Controversy," a wide range
of eminent scholars, journalists, and political leaders
evaluate the competence of our nation's chief executives,
including that of George W. Bush's first complete term in
office. From John McCain on Teddy Roosevelt to Kenneth Starr on
Richard Nixon, editors James Taranto and Leonard Leo have
collected a series of lively, provocative, and highly
readable essays evaluating the terms of each of the forty-
three U.S. presidents. Other contributors include Douglas
Brinkley on James Polk, Melanie Kirkpatrick on Millard
Fillmore, Jay Winik on Abraham Lincoln, and Lynne Cheney on
James Madison. Fascinating and often surprising, the book
reveals who was voted the most controversial and who was
the most over- and underrated from the nationwide survey of
liberal and conservative scholars, balanced to reflect the
political makeup of the U.S. population as a whole.
Presidential Leadership is a pleasure to read and an
authoritative reference for every library.
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