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Recarving Rushmore : ranking the presidents on peace, prosperity, and liberty /
Evaluating presidents on the merits of whether their policies promoted peace, prosperity, and liberty, this ranking system takes a distinctly new approach. Historians and scholars have long tended to give higher rankings to presidents who served during wartime, were well spoken, or exceeded in expan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
Independent Institute,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Evaluating presidents on the merits of whether their policies promoted peace, prosperity, and liberty, this ranking system takes a distinctly new approach. Historians and scholars have long tended to give higher rankings to presidents who served during wartime, were well spoken, or exceeded in expanding the power of the executive office. However, this new examination cuts through these longstanding biases and political rhetoric to offer a new nonpartisan system of ranking that is based purely on how well each president's policies adhered with the founders' original intention of limiting federa. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (530 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781598131819 1598131818 9781598131802 159813180X |