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1 online resource (530 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. George Washington: A Precedent-Setting Presidency-Both Good and Bad; 2. John Adams: Used the Quasi-War with France to Restrict Civil Liberties; 3. Thomas Jefferson: A Hypocrite on Limited Government; 4. James Madison: Started an Unneeded War That Got the U.S. Capital Burned; 5. James Monroe: The First Wisps of Permanent Government Expansion; 6. John Quincy Adams: A Federalist Wearing a Democrat's Clothes; 7. Andrew Jackson: Aggressive against Indians and Southerners; 8. Martin Van Buren: Practiced What He Preached |
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9. William Henry Harrison: Served for Thirty-one Days10. John Tyler: ". . . and Tyler Too!"; 11. James K. Polk: War for Land to Carry Out Aggressive Manifest Destiny; 12. Zachary Taylor: Risked Civil War Years before It Happened; 13. Millard Fillmore: Avoided an Earlier Civil War, but at a Cost; 14. Franklin Pierce: Made Civil War More Likely; 15. James Buchanan: Should Have Let the South Go in Peace; 16. Abraham Lincoln: Provoked a Catastrophic Civil War That Achieved Far Less Than Believed; 17. Andrew Johnson: Uncompromising Attitude Led to Harsh Reconstruction Policies |
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18. Ulysses S. Grant: Better Than Expected, but Still Poor19. Rutherford B. Hayes: Practiced Military Restraint, Except with Indians; 20. James A. Garfield: Served for Six Months; 21. Chester A. Arthur: Promoted Limited Government and Fought Inflation; 22. Grover Cleveland: Exemplar of Honesty and Limited Government; 23. Benjamin Harrison: Bad Economics and the Use of Coercion at Home and Abroad; 24. Grover Cleveland: Served a Second, Nonconsecutive Term; 25. William Mckinley: The First Modern President, with Imperialist Aspirations |
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26. Theodore Roosevelt: Overrated in Accomplishments and Significance27. William Howard Taft: Not a Hefty Policy Innovator; 28. Woodrow Wilson: Made the World Safe for War, Autocracy, and Colonialism; 29. Warren G. Harding: Scandals Masked a Good Presidency; 30. Calvin Coolidge: Silent Cal's Presidency Should Silence the Critics; 31. Herbert Hoover: Sucked the Economy into the Great Depression; 32. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Lied the Nation into War and Expanded Government; 33. Harry S Truman: The First Imperial President; 34. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Overt Dove and Covert Hawk |
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35. John F. Kennedy: Almost Incinerated the World So as Not to Appear Weak36. Lyndon B. Johnson: A Failure with Both Guns and Butter; 37. Richard M. Nixon: Undermined the Republic at Home; Had a Mixed Record Abroad; 38. Gerald R. Ford: Pardon Me!; 39. James Earl Carter, JR.: The Best Modern President; 40. Ronald Reagan: Not Really That Conservative; 41. George H.W. Bush: "Read My Lips," No Real Accomplishments; 42. William J. Clinton: More Fiscally Conservative Than Reagan and the Bushes; 43. George W. Bush: Interventionist Policies Undermined the Republic at Home and Peace Abroad |
| Summary |
Evaluating presidents on the merits of whether their policies promoted peace, prosperity, and liberty, this ranking system takes a distinctly new approach. Historians and scholars have long tended to give higher rankings to presidents who served during wartime, were well spoken, or exceeded in expanding the power of the executive office. However, this new examination cuts through these longstanding biases and political rhetoric to offer a new nonpartisan system of ranking that is based purely on how well each president's policies adhered with the founders' original intention of limiting federa |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Presidents -- Rating of -- United States
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Presidents -- United States -- History
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Politics and government
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Presidents
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Presidents -- Rating of
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United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781598131819 |
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1598131818 |
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9781598131802 |
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159813180X |
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