Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House

What makes a president great? Two of America's most prominent institutions, The Wall Street Journal and the Federalist Society, with the help of a wide array of eminent scholars, journalists, and political leaders, tackle this question in Presidential Leadership, the definitive ranking of our nation's chief executives.

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Title of ebook: Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House
ISBN: 9780743272261
parent-ISBN: 9780743254335
Publisher: Wall Street Journal Books
Published: 07-2004
Released online for download: 07-30-2004
Editor: Taranto, James
Editor: Leo, Leonard
Foreword by: Bennett, William, J.

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Chapter One

JAMES BUCHANAN

SURVEY RANKING: 39

BORN: April 23, 1791, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania

WIFE: None

RELIGION: Presbyterian

PARTY: Democrat

MILITARY EXPERIENCE: Pennsylvania militia (private)

OTHER OFFICES HELD: Pennsylvania state representative (1814-15), U.S. representative (1821-31), U.S. senator (1834-45), U.S. secretary of state (1845-49)

TOOK OFFICE: March 4, 1857

VICE PRESIDENT: John Breckenridge

LEFT OFFICE: March 4, 1861

DIED: June 1, 1868

BURIED: Lancaster, Pennsylvania

by Christopher Buckley

It's probably just as well that James Buchanan was our only bachelor president. There are no descendants bracing every morning on opening the paper to find another headline announcing: "Buchanan Once Again Rated Worst President in History."

Their only consolation is that political scientists occasionally tire of ranking him last and, just for the heck of it, bump him up to next-to-worst president, with Warren Harding (temporarily) assuming the bottom slot on the gre ... read full excerpt from: Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House ebook

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