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Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 526 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, weight: 719 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-Oct-2014
  • Leidėjas: Independent Institute,U.S.
  • ISBN-10: 159813129X
  • ISBN-13: 9781598131291
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 526 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, weight: 719 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-Oct-2014
  • Leidėjas: Independent Institute,U.S.
  • ISBN-10: 159813129X
  • ISBN-13: 9781598131291
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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 States as seen through the founders’ likely vision of subsequent presidential actions. These presidential rankings will surprise most and enlighten even acknowledged experts on the presidency.

Introduction 1(18)
1 George Washington
A Precedent-Setting Presidency -- Both Good and Bad
19(6)
2 John Adams
Used the Quasi-War with France to Restrict Civil Liberties
25(5)
3 Thomas Jefferson
A Hypocrite on Limited Government
30(8)
4 James Madison
Started an Unneeded War That Got the U.S. Capital Burned
38(12)
5 James Monroe
The First Wisps of Permanent Government Expansion
50(5)
6 John Quincy Adams
A Federalist Wearing a Democrat's Clothes
55(5)
7 Andrew Jackson
Aggressive against Indians and Southerners
60(10)
8 Martin Van Buren
Practiced What He Preached
70(6)
9 William Henry Harrison
Served for Thirty-one Days
76(1)
10 John Tyler
“r;...and Tyler Too!”r;
77(6)
11 James K. Polk
War for Land to Carry Out Aggressive Manifest Destiny
83(9)
12 Zachary Taylor
Risked Civil War Years before It Happened
92(4)
13 Millard Fillmore
Avoided an Earlier Civil War, but at a Cost
96(5)
14 Franklin Pierce
Made Civil War More Likely
101(5)
15 James Buchanan
Should Have Let the South Go in Peace
106(10)
16 Abraham Lincoln
Provoked a Catastrophic Civil War That Achieved Far Less Than Believed
116(15)
17 Andrew Johnson
Uncompromising Attitude Led to Harsh Reconstruction Policies
131(8)
18 Ulysses S. Grant
Better Than Expected, but Still Poor
139(11)
19 Rutherford B. Hayes
Practiced Military Restraint, Except with Indians
150(7)
20 James A. Garfield
Served for Six Months
157(1)
21 Chester A. Arthur
Promoted Limited Government and Fought Inflation
158(5)
22 Grover Cleveland
Exemplar of Honesty and Limited Government
163(9)
23 Benjamin Harrison
Bad Economics and the Use of Coercion at Home and Abroad
172(5)
24 Grover Cleveland
Served a Second, Nonconsecutive Term
177(1)
25 William Mckinley
The First Modern President, with Imperialist Aspirations
178(9)
26 Theodore Roosevelt
Overrated in Accomplishments and Significance
187(19)
27 William Howard Taft
Not a Hefty Policy Innovator
206(6)
28 Woodrow Wilson
Made the World Safe for War, Autocracy, and Colonialism
212(18)
29 Warren G. Harding
Scandals Masked a Good Presidency
230(6)
30 Calvin Coolidge
Silent Cal's Presidency Should Silence the Critics
236(6)
32 Herbert Hoover
Sucked the Economy into the Great Depression
242(6)
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lied the Nation into War and Expanded Government
248(19)
33 Harry S Truman
The First Imperial President
267(19)
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Overt Dove and Covert Hawk
286(13)
35 John F. Kennedy
Almost Incinerated the World So as Not to Appear Weak
299(13)
36 Lyndon B. Johnson
A Failure with Both Guns and Butter
312(12)
37 Richard M. Nixon
Undermined the Republic at Home; Had a Mixed Record Abroad
324(11)
38 Gerald R. Ford
Pardon Me!
335(9)
39 James Earl Carter, Jr.
The Best Modern President
344(15)
40 Ronald Reagan
Not Really That Conservative
359(13)
41 George H.W. Bush
“r;Read My Lips,”r; No Real Accomplishments
372(10)
42 William J. Clinton
More Fiscally Conservative Than Reagan and the Bushes
382(19)
43 George W. Bush
Interventionist Policies Undermined the Republic at Home and Peace Abroad
401(26)
44 Barack Obama
Only a Slightly Improved Version of George W. Bush
427(27)
Conclusion 454(5)
Notes 459(30)
Index 489(26)
About the Author 515
Ivan Eland is a senior fellow and director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute, a former director of defence policy studies at the Cato Institute, and a former principal defence analyst with the Congressional Budget Office. He is the author of The Empire Has No Clothes, No War for Oil, Partitioning for Peace, and Putting Defense Back Into U.S. Defense Policy. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including the Chicago Tribune, the Northwestern Journal of International Affairs, and the Washington Post, and on television programs such as ABC's World News, CNN's Crossfire, and various Fox News shows. He lives in Washington, DC, USA.