The Presidents by Lamb, Brian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Dedication A Note to Readers on Style Our Special Contributors Introduction Susan Swain The Magnificent Lion Richard Norton Smith A Brief History of Presidential Rankings Douglas Brinkley THE TOP TEN

1 Abraham Lincoln Harold Holzer 2 George Washington Ron Chernow 3 Franklin D. Roosevelt Doris Kearns Goodwin 4 Theodore Roosevelt Douglas Brinkley 5 Dwight D. Eisenhower William I. Hitchcock 6 Harry S. Truman Aida D. Donald 7 Thomas Jefferson Willard Sterne Randall 8 John F. Kennedy Robert Dallek 9 Ronald Reagan Lou Cannon 10 Lyndon B. Johnson Robert A. Caro

… THE MEN IN THE MIDDLE

11 Woodrow Wilson A. Scott Berg 12 Barack Obama David J. Garrow 13 James Monroe John Ferling 14 James K. Polk John Seigenthaler 15 William J. Clinton David Maraniss 16 William McKinley Robert W. Merry 17 James Madison Noah Feldman 18 Andrew Jackson Mark R. Cheathem 19 John Adams Gordon S. Wood 20 George H. W. Bush Jeffrey A. Engel 21 John Quincy Adams James Traub 22 Ulysses S. Grant Ronald C. White 23 Grover Cleveland H. Paul Jeffers 24 William Howard Taft Jeffrey Rosen 25 Gerald R. Ford James Cannon 26 Jimmy Carter Michael J. Gerhardt 27 Calvin Coolidge Amity Shlaes 28 Richard M. Nixon Evan Thomas 29 James A. Garfield Kenneth D. Ackerman 30 Benjamin Harrison Charles W. Calhoun 31 Zachary Taylor Elbert B. Smith 32 Rutherford B. Hayes Ari Hoogenboom 33 George W. Bush James Mann

… AND ALL THE REST

34 Martin Van Buren Michael Douglas Henderson 35 Chester A. Arthur Scott S. Greenberger 36 Herbert Hoover Richard Norton Smith 37 Millard Fillmore Edna Greene Medford 38 William Henry Harrison Ronald G. Shafer 39 John Tyler Edward P. Crapol 40 Warren G. Harding John W. Dean 41 Franklin Pierce Peter A. Wallner 42 Andrew Johnson David O. Stewart 43 James Buchanan Robert Strauss

HISTORIANS’ PERSPECTIVES ON PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

Postscript: The Presidency, National Identity, and the Pursuit of Equal Justice Edna Greene Medford Acknowledgments Discover More About the Author Appendix I: Historians’ Survey on Presidential Leadership, Total Scores and Overall Rankings Appendix II: US Presidents in Chronological Order Complete List of Featured Books Also from C-Span Index