Where They Stand The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians

Name: Where They Stand The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians
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ISBN: 9781451625400

ISBN-10: 1451625405

ISBN-13: 9781451625400

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert W. Merry

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For the 2012 presidential race, the author of the acclaimed and successful biography of President James Polk offers a fresh, playful, and challenging way of playing “Rating the Presidents”—America’s favorite game—by pitching historians’ views and subsequent experts’ polls against the judgment and votes of the presidents’ own contemporaries.Merry examines how and why presidents succeed and fail by recounting the judgments of historians and comparing them to how the voters saw things. Was the president re-elected and, then, did his party hold office in the subsequent election? Where They Stand explores the chief executives Merry calls “Men of Destiny,” those who set the country toward new…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 6/26/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Introduction: The Great White House Rating Game



The Historians



The Judgment of History



The Vagaries of History



The People



The Making of the Presidency



The Presidential Referendum



The Judgment of the Electorate



The Stain of Failure



The Test of Greatness



War and Peace



Split-Decision Presidents



Leaders of Destiny



Reputations in Flux



Republican Resurgence



The Post-Cold War Presidents


Conclusion: Clear and Present Danger


Acknowledgments



Academic Polls



Presidents by Category Based on Voter Response


Notes


Bibliography


Index