Recarving Rushmore Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty

Name: Recarving Rushmore Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty
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ISBN: 9781598131291

ISBN-10: 159813129X

ISBN-13: 9781598131291

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Authors: Ivan Eland

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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 federal power in all its aspects. As a result, the book provides an alternative history of the United…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Publisher: Independent Institute, The
Publication date: 10/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 526
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

IVAN ELAND is Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute.