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© 2004 Presidential Leadership
Contents of Presidential Leadership
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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2 16 oz. cans of red beans
1/2 pound firm tofu
1 egg
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1 onion
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