Bibliograph

Presidential leadership, rating the best and the worst in the White House, edited by James Taranto and Leonard Leo

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Label

Presidential leadership, rating the best and the worst in the White House, edited by James Taranto and Leonard Leo

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Presidential leadership

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

54046936

Responsibility statement

edited by James Taranto and Leonard Leo

Series statement

A Wall Street journal book

Sub title

rating the best and the worst in the White House

Table Of Contents

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. George Washington (1789-97) / by Richard Brookhiser -- John Adams (1797-1801) / by Matthew Spalding -- Thomas Jefferson (1801-09) / by Forrest McDonald -- James Madison (1809-17) / by Lynne Cheney -- James Monroe (1817-25) / by David B. Rivkin, Jr., and Mark Wendell DeLaquil -- John Quincy Adams (1825-29) by Richard Norton Smith -- Andrew Jackson (1829-37) / by H.W. Brands -- Martin Van Buren (1837-41) / by John Steele Gordon -- William Henry Harrison (1841) / by Glenn Harlan Reynolds -- John Tyler (1841-45) / by John S. Baker, Jr. -- James Knox Polk (1845-49) / by Douglas G. Brinkley -- Zachary Taylor (1849-50) / by Brendan Miniter -- Millard Fillmore (1850-53) / by Melanie Kirkpatrick -- Franklin Pierce (1853-57) / by Cynthia Crossen -- James Buchanan (1857-61) / by Christopher Buckley -- Abraham Lincoln (1861-65) / by Jay Winik -- Andrew Johnson (1865-69) / by Jeffrey K. Tulis -- Ulysses Simpson Grant (1869-77) / by Michael Barone --Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1877-81) / by Ari Hoogenboom -- James Abram Garfield (1881) / by Allan Peskin -- Chester Alan Arthur (1881-85) / by John J. DiIulio, Jr. -- Stephen Grover Cleveland (1885-89, 1893-97) / by Suzanne Garment -- Benjamin Harrison (1889-93) / by Jessica King -- William McKinley (1897-1901 / by Fred Barnes -- Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) / by John S. McCain -- William Howard Taft (1909-13) / by Theodore B. Olson -- Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1913-21) / by Max Boot -- Warren Gamaliel Harding (1921-23) / by Jeremy Rabkin -- John Calvin Coolidge (1923-29) / by John O. McGinnis --Herbert Clark Hoover (1929-33) / by Robert H. Ferrell -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-45) / by Robert H. Bork -- Harry S. Truman (1945-53) / by Terry Eastland -- Dwight David Eisenhower (1953-61) / by Edwin Meese III -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961-63) / by Peggy Noonan -- Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-69) / by Robert Dallek -- Richard Milhous Nixon (1969-74) / by Kenneth W. Starr -- Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (1974-77) / by Thomas J. Bray -- James Earl Carter, Jr. (1977-81) / by Joshua Muravchik -- Ronald Wilson Reagan (1981-89) / by Harvey C. Mansfield -- George Herbert Walker Bush (1989-93) / by Pete du Pont -- William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001) / by Paul Johnson -- George Walker Bush (2001- ) / by Paul A. Gigot --Issues in presidential leadership. Presidential leadership in economic policy / by Robert L. Bartley -- Presential 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 : Methodology of rankings / by James Lindgren -- Survey participants -- Election data, 1789-2000

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