Presidential Leadership
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Presidential Leadership

Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Presidential Leadership

Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House

About this book

What makes a president great? Two of America's most prominent institutions, The Wall Street Journal and the Federalist Society, with the help of a wide array of eminent scholars, journalists, and political leaders, tackle this question in Presidential Leadership, the definitive ranking of our nation's chief executives.
Based on a survey conducted by the Federalist Society and the Journal, Presidential Leadership examines presidential performance in this collection of provocative, enlightening essays written by a distinguished and diverse group of authors.
The survey included seventy-eight liberal and conservative scholars, balancing the sample to reflect the political makeup of the U.S. population as a whole. It represents the first national survey in book form that provides a complete ranking of the presidents, along with an appendix that explains the methodology in detail and includes a wide range of valuable data. The result is an important, fresh, and engaging book, rating the presidents from Washington to Clinton and including an early assessment of George W. Bush's presidency by Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot. Nearly fifty contributors provide their insights, with one essay on each president or on a broader issue of presidential leadership. Among them: • Forrest McDonald on Thomas Jefferson
• Lynne Cheney on James Madison
• Douglas Brinkley on James Polk
• Christopher Buckley on James Buchanan
• Jay Winik on Abraham Lincoln
• John McCain on Theodore Roosevelt
• Robert Dallek on Lyndon B. Johnson
• Peggy Noonan on John F. Kennedy
• Paul Johnson on Bill Clinton Their compelling essays, packed with fascinating and often surprising insights, analyze the best and worst of our commanders in chief. Presidential Leadership is the lively result, at once a valuable reference and a tremendously readable collection.

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Publisher
Free Press
Year
2004
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9780743272261
Subtopic
20th Century History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Colophon
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. FOREWORD: Presidents, Greatness, and History by William J. Bennett
  7. INTRODUCTION: The Presidency, Federalist No. 10, and the Constitution by Steven G. Calabresi
  8. THE RANKINGS
  9. The Presidents
  10. 1. George Washington (1789–97) by Richard Brookhiser
  11. 2. John Adams (1797–1801) by Matthew Spalding
  12. 3. Thomas Jefferson (1801–09) by Forrest McDonald
  13. 4. James Madison (1809–17) by Lynne Cheney
  14. 5. James Monroe (1817–25) by David B. Rivkin, Jr., and Mark Wendell DeLaquil
  15. 6. John Quincy Adams (1825–29) by Richard Norton Smith
  16. 7. Andrew Jackson (1829–37) by H. W. Brands
  17. 8. Martin Van Buren (1837–41) by John Steele Gordon
  18. 9. William Henry Harrison (1841) by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
  19. 10. John Tyler (1841–45) by John S. Baker, Jr.
  20. 11. James Knox Polk (1845–49) by Douglas G. Brinkley
  21. 12. Zachary Taylor (1849–50) by Brendan Miniter
  22. 13. Millard Fillmore (1850–53) by Melanie Kirkpatrick
  23. 14. Franklin Pierce (1853–57) by Cynthia Crossen
  24. 15. James Buchanan (1857–61) by Christopher Buckley
  25. 16. Abraham Lincoln (1861–65) by Jay Winik
  26. 17. Andrew Johnson (1865–69) by Jeffrey K. Tulis
  27. 18. Ulysses Simpson Grant (1869–77) by Michael Barone
  28. 19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1877–81) by Ari Hoogenboom
  29. 20. James Abram Garfield (1881) by Allan Peskin
  30. 21. Chester Alan Arthur (1881–85) by John J. DiIulio, Jr.
  31. 22. & 24. Stephen Grover Cleveland (1885–89, 1893–97) by Suzanne Garment
  32. 23. Benjamin Harrison (1889–93) by Jessica King
  33. 25. William McKinley (1897–1901) by Fred Barnes
  34. 26. Theodore Roosevelt (1901–09) by John S. McCain
  35. 27. William Howard Taft (1909–13) by Theodore B. Olson
  36. 28. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1913–21) by Max Boot
  37. 29. Warren Gamaliel Harding (1921–23) by Jeremy Rabkin
  38. 30. John Calvin Coolidge (1923–29) by John O. McGinnis
  39. 31. Herbert Clark Hoover (1929–33) by Robert H. Ferrell
  40. 32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933–45) by Robert H. Bork
  41. 33. Harry S. Truman (1945–53) by Terry Eastland
  42. 34. Dwight David Eisenhower (1953–61) by Edwin Meese III
  43. 35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961–63) by Peggy Noonan
  44. 36. Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963–69) by Robert Dallek
  45. 37. Richard Milhous Nixon (1969–74) by Kenneth W. Starr
  46. 38. Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (1974–77) by Thomas J. Bray
  47. 39. James Earl Carter, Jr. (1977–81) by Joshua Muravchik
  48. 40. Ronald Wilson Reagan (1981–89) by Harvey C. Mansfield
  49. 41. George Herbert Walker Bush (1989–93) by Pete du Pont
  50. 42. William Jefferson Clinton (1993–2001) by Paul Johnson
  51. 43. George Walker Bush (2001–) by Paul A. Gigot
  52. Issues in Presidential Leadership
  53. Presidential Leadership in Economic Policy by Robert L. Bartley
  54. Presidential Leadership During Wartime by Victor Davis Hanson
  55. Presidential Leadership and the Judiciary by Robert P. George
  56. Presidential Leadership After Disputed Elections by James Taranto Appendixes
  57. 1. Methodology of Rankings by James Lindgren
  58. 2. Survey Participants
  59. 3. Election Data, 1789–2000
  60. Acknowledgments
  61. Index
  62. About the Editors

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