Where They Stand

by Merry, Robert W.

• ISBN13: 9781410450678
• ISBN10: 1410450678
• Edition: Large
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-15
• Publisher: Thorndike Pr

Summary

The author of the acclaimed biography of President James Polk offers a fresh, playful, and challenging way of rating presidents--by pitching historians' views and subsequent experts' polls against the judgment and votes of the presidents' own contemporaries.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Great White House Rating Game	p. 9
The Historians
The Judgment of History	p. 27
The Vagaries of History	p. 54
The People
The Making of the Presidency	p. 91
The Presidential Referendum	p. 103
The Judgment of the Electorate	p. 129
The Stain of Failure	p. 167
The Test of Greatness
War and Peace	p. 209
Split-Decision Presidents	p. 254
Leaders of Destiny	p. 286
Reputations in Flux
Republican Resurgence	p. 333
The Post-Cold War Presidents	p. 364
Conclusion: Clear and Present Danger	p. 400
Acknowledgments	p. 409
Academic Polls	p. 413
Presidents By Category Based on Voter Response	p. 419
Notes	p. 425
Bibliography	p. 467
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