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- catalog abstract "Authors Ridings and McIver polled more than seven hundred historians and academics to determine who were the best, the worst, and even the most mediocre presidents. Each survey participant was asked to rate every president from highest to lowest in five separate categories: Leadership Qualities - Franklin Roosevelt rates highest; Harding lowest. Accomplishments and Crisis Management - Lincoln rates highest; Buchanan lowest. Political Skill - Franklin Roosevelt rates highest; Andrew Johnson lowest. Appointments - George Washington rates highest; Harding lowest. Character and Integrity - Lincoln rates highest; Nixon lowest. Between these peaks and valleys of presidential achievement lie forty-one fascinating portraits of power won and power squandered, of fateful events, decisive action or executive dithering. Students, professors and armchair historians of every stripe will love Rating the Presidents. Was Franklin Roosevelt a greater president than George Washington? Could any of the presidents between Jackson and Buchanan have prevented the Civil War? Would Lyndon Johnson have been a truly great president if he had avoided the quagmire of Vietnam? Why does John F. Kennedy, a president of few tangible achievements, still rank so high? Was Ronald Reagan a great president or merely a charming personality? How kind will history be to Bill Clinton? Rating the Presidents is sure to be a prized and often-thumbed-through reference book for years to come.".
- catalog contributor b8892001.
- catalog contributor b8892002.
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Authors Ridings and McIver polled more than seven hundred historians and academics to determine who were the best, the worst, and even the most mediocre presidents. Each survey participant was asked to rate every president from highest to lowest in five separate categories: Leadership Qualities - Franklin Roosevelt rates highest; Harding lowest. Accomplishments and Crisis Management - Lincoln rates highest; Buchanan lowest. Political Skill - Franklin Roosevelt rates highest; Andrew Johnson lowest. Appointments - George Washington rates highest; Harding lowest. Character and Integrity - Lincoln rates highest; Nixon lowest. Between these peaks and valleys of presidential achievement lie forty-one fascinating portraits of power won and power squandered, of fateful events, decisive action or executive dithering. Students, professors and armchair historians of every stripe will love Rating the Presidents.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-298) and index.".
- catalog description "Was Franklin Roosevelt a greater president than George Washington? Could any of the presidents between Jackson and Buchanan have prevented the Civil War? Would Lyndon Johnson have been a truly great president if he had avoided the quagmire of Vietnam? Why does John F. Kennedy, a president of few tangible achievements, still rank so high? Was Ronald Reagan a great president or merely a charming personality? How kind will history be to Bill Clinton? Rating the Presidents is sure to be a prized and often-thumbed-through reference book for years to come.".
- catalog extent "x, 306 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Rating the presidents.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Rating the presidents.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Carol Pub. Group,".
- catalog relation "Rating the presidents.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "973/.099 20".
- catalog subject "E176.1 .R55 1996".
- catalog subject "Presidents Rating of United States.".
- catalog title "Rating the presidents : a ranking of U.S. leaders, from the great and honorable to the dishonest and incompetent / William J. Ridings Jr. and Stuart B.McIver.".
- catalog type "text".