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Presidential rankings emerged in 1948 when Life Magazine published an article by the prominent historian, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., who had selected 55 experts on the presidency and asked them to rank the presidents. He asked his respondents to rank presidents into categories of ""Great,"" ""Near Great,"" ""Average,"" ""Below Average"" and ""Failure."" The result was a substantial article that attracted wide public attention. His work and similar studies have not escaped criticism, however. Many general works on the presidency have discussed presidential greatness and identified presidents who stood out for good or ill. There are likely unavoidable inadequacies in all ranking schemes, regardless of the complicated measures that many authors employ in their attempts to be ""scientific."" This book provides useful criticism of these presidential rankings. It is arranged chronologically, and discusses each presidential performance and each ranking study in detail. Perhaps it would be sufficient to say that each man was the right one to be president for his time.
| George Washington | p. 9 |
| John Adams | p. 19 |
| Thomas Jefferson | p. 31 |
| James Madison | p. 45 |
| James Monroe | p. 56 |
| John Quincy Adams | p. 63 |
| Andrew Jackson | p. 68 |
| Martin Van Buren | p. 80 |
| William Henry Harrison | p. 87 |
| John Tyler | p. 90 |
| James K. Polk | p. 98 |
| Zachary Taylor | p. 103 |
| Millard Fillmore | p. 110 |
| Franklin Pierce | p. 116 |
| James Buchanan | p. 122 |
| Abraham Lincoln | p. 128 |
| Andrew Johnson | p. 135 |
| Ulysses S. Grant | p. 143 |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | p. 152 |
| James A. Garfield | p. 157 |
| Chester Alan Arthur | p. 159 |
| Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) | p. 163 |
| Benjamin Harrison | p. 171 |
| Grover Cleveland (1893-1897) | p. 176 |
| William McKinley | p. 177 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | p. 182 |
| William Howard Taft | p. 196 |
| Woodrow Wilson | p. 201 |
| Warren G. Harding | p. 210 |
| Calvin Coolidge | p. 217 |
| Herbert C. Hoover | p. 223 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | p. 231 |
| Harry S. Truman | p. 243 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | p. 256 |
| John F. Kennedy | p. 267 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | p. 277 |
| Richard M. Nixon | p. 286 |
| Gerald R. Ford | p. 299 |
| James Earl (Jimmy) Carter | p. 308 |
| Ronald W. Reagan | p. 317 |
| George Herbert Walker Bush | p. 332 |
| William Jefferson Clinton | p. 341 |
| George W. Bush | p. 355 |
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ISBN: 9780786418206
ISBN-10: 0786418206
Audience:
General
For Ages: 18+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 421
Published: 1st May 2004
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 22.86 x 15.14
x 2.36
Weight (kg): 0.57
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