Presidential leadership : rating the best and the worst in the White House / edited by James Taranto and Leonard Leo
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- New York : Wall Street Journal Books, c2004
- vii, 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- FOREWORD: Presidents, Greatness, and History by William J. Bennett
- INTRODUCTION: The Presidency, Federalist No. 10, and the Constitution by Steven G. Calabresi
- The Rankings
- The Presidents 1. George Washington (1789-97) by Richard Brookhiser
- 2. John Adams (1797-1801) by Matthew Spalding
- 3. Thomas Jefferson (1801-09) by Forrest McDonald
- 4. James Madison (1809-17) by Lynne Cheney
- 5. James Monroe (1817-25) by David B. Rivkin, Jr., and Mark Wendell DeLaquil
- 6. John Quincy Adams (1825-29) by Richard Norton Smith
- 7. Andrew Jackson (1829-37) by H. W. Brands
- 8. Martin Van Buren (1837-41) by John Steele Gordon
- 9. William Henry Harrison (1841) by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
- 10. John Tyler (1841-45) by John S. Baker, Jr.
- 11. James Knox Polk (1845-49) by Douglas G. Brinkley
- 12. Zachary Taylor (1849-50) by Brendan Miniter
- 13. Millard Fillmore (1850-53) by Melanie Kirkpatrick
- 14. Franklin Pierce (1853-57) by Cynthia Crossen
- 15. James Buchanan (1857-61) by Christopher Buckley
- 16. Abraham Lincoln (1861-65) by Jay Winik
- 17. Andrew Johnson (1865-69) by Jeffrey K. Tulis
- 18. Ulysses Simpson Grant (1869-77) by Michael Barone
- 19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1877-81) by Ari Hoogenboom
- 20. James Abram Garfield (1881) by Allan Peskin
- 21. Chester Alan Arthur (1881-85) by John J. DiIulio, Jr.
- 22. & 24. Stephen Grover Cleveland (1885-89, 1893-97) by Suzanne Garment
- 23. Benjamin Harrison (1889-93) by Jessica King
- 25. William McKinley (1897-1901) by Fred Barnes
- 26. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) by John S. McCain
- 27. William Howard Taft (1909-13) by Theodore B. Olson
- 28. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1913-21) by Max Boot
- 29. Warren Gamaliel Harding (1921-23) by Jeremy Rabkin
- 30. John Calvin Coolidge (1923-29) by John O. McGinnis
- 31. Herbert Clark Hoover (1929-33) by Robert H. Ferrell
- 32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-45) by Robert H. Bork
- 33. Harry S. Truman (1945-53) by Terry Eastland
- 34. Dwight David Eisenhower (1953-61) by Edwin Meese III
- 35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961-63) by Peggy Noonan
- 36. Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-69) by Robert Dallek
- 37. Richard Milhous Nixon (1969-74) by Kenneth W. Starr
- 38. Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (1974-77) by Thomas J. Bray
- 39. James Earl Carter, Jr. (1977-81) by Joshua Muravchik
- 40. Ronald Wilson Reagan (1981-89) by Harvey C. Mansfield
- 41. George Herbert Walker Bush (1989-93) by Pete du Pont
- 42. William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001) by Paul Johnson
- 43. George Walker Bush (2001-????) by Paul A. Gigot
- Issues in Presidential Leadership Presidential Leadership in Economic Policy by Robert L. Bartley
- Presidential Leadership During Wartime by Victor Davis Hanson
- Presidential Leadership and the Judiciary by Robert P. George
- Presidential Leadership After Disputed Elections by James Taranto
- Appendixes 1. Methodology of Rankings by James Lindgren
- 2. Survey Participants
- 3. Election Data, 1789-2000
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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