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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. George Washington: A Precedent-Setting Presidency-Both Good and Bad; 2. John Adams: Used the Quasi-War with France to Restrict Civil Liberties; 3. Thomas Jefferson: A Hypocrite on Limited Government; 4. James Madison: Started an Unneeded War That Got the U.S. Capital Burned; 5. James Monroe: The First Wisps of Permanent Government Expansion; 6. John Quincy Adams: A Federalist Wearing a Democrat's Clothes; 7. Andrew Jackson: Aggressive against Indians and Southerners; 8. Martin Van Buren: Practiced What He Preached.
- 9. William Henry Harrison: Served for Thirty-one Days10. John Tyler: ". . . and Tyler Too!"; 11. James K. Polk: War for Land to Carry Out Aggressive Manifest Destiny; 12. Zachary Taylor: Risked Civil War Years before It Happened; 13. Millard Fillmore: Avoided an Earlier Civil War, but at a Cost; 14. Franklin Pierce: Made Civil War More Likely; 15. James Buchanan: Should Have Let the South Go in Peace; 16. Abraham Lincoln: Provoked a Catastrophic Civil War That Achieved Far Less Than Believed; 17. Andrew Johnson: Uncompromising Attitude Led to Harsh Reconstruction Policies.
- 18. Ulysses S. Grant: Better Than Expected, but Still Poor19. Rutherford B. Hayes: Practiced Military Restraint, Except with Indians; 20. James A. Garfield: Served for Six Months; 21. Chester A. Arthur: Promoted Limited Government and Fought Inflation; 22. Grover Cleveland: Exemplar of Honesty and Limited Government; 23. Benjamin Harrison: Bad Economics and the Use of Coercion at Home and Abroad; 24. Grover Cleveland: Served a Second, Nonconsecutive Term; 25. William Mckinley: The First Modern President, with Imperialist Aspirations.
- 26. Theodore Roosevelt: Overrated in Accomplishments and Significance27. William Howard Taft: Not a Hefty Policy Innovator; 28. Woodrow Wilson: Made the World Safe for War, Autocracy, and Colonialism; 29. Warren G. Harding: Scandals Masked a Good Presidency; 30. Calvin Coolidge: Silent Cal's Presidency Should Silence the Critics; 31. Herbert Hoover: Sucked the Economy into the Great Depression; 32. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Lied the Nation into War and Expanded Government; 33. Harry S Truman: The First Imperial President; 34. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Overt Dove and Covert Hawk.
- 35. John F. Kennedy: Almost Incinerated the World So as Not to Appear Weak36. Lyndon B. Johnson: A Failure with Both Guns and Butter; 37. Richard M. Nixon: Undermined the Republic at Home; Had a Mixed Record Abroad; 38. Gerald R. Ford: Pardon Me!; 39. James Earl Carter, JR.: The Best Modern President; 40. Ronald Reagan: Not Really That Conservative; 41. George H.W. Bush: "Read My Lips," No Real Accomplishments; 42. William J. Clinton: More Fiscally Conservative Than Reagan and the Bushes; 43. George W. Bush: Interventionist Policies Undermined the Republic at Home and Peace Abroad.