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The presidents : noted historians rank America's best--and worst--chief executives / Brian Lamb, Susan Swain, and C-SPAN ; special contributions by Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford, Richard Norton Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lamb, Brian, 1941- author.
- Swain, Susan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--United States.
- Presidents.
- United States.
- Advertising, Political--United States.
- Advertising, Political.
- Political campaigns--United States.
- Political campaigns.
- Television in politics--United States.
- Television in politics.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 523 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, 2019.
- Summary:
- Offers a complete ranking of United States presidents from best to worst based on their leadership skills, moral authority, and ability to persuade the public.
- Contents:
- A note to readers on style
- Our special contributors
- Introduction / Susan Swain
- The magnificent lion / Richard Norton Smith
- A brief history of presidential rankings / Douglas Brinkley
- The top ten. Abraham Lincoln / Harold Holzer
- George Washington / Ron Chernow
- Franklin D. Roosevelt / Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Dwight D Eisenhower / William I. Hitchcock
- Harry S. Truman / Aida D. Donald
- Thomas Jefferson / Willard Sterne Randall
- John F. Kennedy / Robert Dallek
- Ronald Reagan / Lou Cannon
- Lyndon B. Johnson / Robert A. Caro
- The men in the middle. Woodrow Wilson / A. Scott Berg
- Barack Obama / David J. Garrow
- James Monroe / John Ferling
- James K. Polk / John Seigenthaler
- William McKinley / Robert W. Merry
- Jame Madison / Noah Feldman
- Andrew Jackson / Mark R. Cheathem
- John Adams / Gordon S. Wood
- George H.W. Bush / Jeffrey A. Engel
- John Quincy Adams / James Traub
- Ulysses S. Grant / Ronald C. White
- Grover Cleveland / H. Paul Jeffers
- William Howard Taft / Jeffrey Rosen
- Gerald R. Ford / James Cannon
- Jimmy Carter / Michael J. Gerhardt
- Calvin Coolidge / Amity Shlaes
- Richard M. Nixon / Evan Thomas
- James A. Garfield / Kenneth D. Ackerman
- Benjamin Harrison / Charles W. Calhoun
- Zachary Taylor / Elbert B. Smith
- Rutherford B. Hayes / Ari Hoogenbom
- George W. Bush / James Mann
- And all the rest. Martin Van Buren / Michael Douglas Henderson
- Chester A. Arthur / Scott S. Greenberger
- Herbert Hoover / Richard Norton Smith
- Millard Fillmore / Edna Greene Medford
- William Henry Harrison / Ronald G. Shafer
- John Tyler / Edward P. Grapol
- Warren G Harding / John W. Dean
- Franklin Pierce / Peter A. Wallner
- Andrew Johnson / David O. Stewart
- James Buchanan / Robert Strauss
- Historians' perspectives on president Donald J. Trump / Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford, and Richard Norton Smith
- Postscript: The presidency, national identity, and the pursuit of equal justice / Edna Greene Medford
- Appendix I: Historians' survey on presidential leadership, total scores and overall rankings
- Appendix II: US presidents in chronological order.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-509) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781541774339
- 1541774337
- OCLC:
- 1096434654
- Publisher Number:
- 99980890890
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