Ebook: The Leaders we deserved (and a few we didn't): rethinking the presidential rating game
Author: Felzenberg Alvin S
- Tags: Political leadership--United States, Presidents--United States--History, Presidents--United States, Political leadership, Presidents, Politics and government, History, Political leadership -- United States, Presidents -- United States, Presidents -- United States -- History, United States -- Politics and government, United States
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Basic Books
- City: New York;United States
- Language: English
- epub
It's a perennial pastime to rate U.S. presidents on an all-time ranking: Certain presidents were "Great," others were "Near-Great," and so on down to "Failures" and "Unmitigated Disasters." (OK, we made that last category up.) But as Alvin Felzenberg points out, there are many flaws with these rating systems. Despite reams of new historical information, the rankings never seem to change very much. They all favor a certain kind of president-those who tended to increase executive power. That aside, the idea of rating presidential performance on a simple linear scale is absurd. The Leaders We Des.
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