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Chapter 1 Not What the Founders Had in Mind
The Presidency Has Grown—and the Citizens Have Shrunk
What Makes a Truly Great President?
Measuring Presidents—the Forgotten Yardstick
The Constitution Ignored
Chapter 2 The Presidency the Founders Created
The Electoral College and the Creation of “Deliberative Majorities”
The Founders on the Character of the Executive Office
George Washington’s Republican Modesty
Our Early Presidents: Defenders of the Constitution
The Birth of the Modern Presidency
Grading the Presidents
Chapter 3 Woodrow Wilson, 1913–1921
Wilson the Conservative?
The Revolutionary President
Wilsonian “Progress,” on a Collision Course with the Constitution
Wilson’s “Mature Freedom” versus the Founders’ “Liberty”
Wilson on the President: Visionary Leader, Voice of the People, and Crusher of the Opposition
Wilson, Enthusiast for Bureaucracy
Arrogance in Office
Chapter 4 Warren G. Harding, 1921–1923
The Most Underrated Modern President
An Unlikely Nomination, a Landslide Election
Harding, the Anti-Wilson
Solid Achievements in Foreign Affairs
Harding on the Constitution
Harding’s Posthumous Reputation
The Scandals
Chapter 5 Calvin Coolidge, 1923–1929
A Classical American Education
Rising Political Star
Coolidge in the White House
Coolidge’s One Supreme Court (Dis)Appointment
Chapter 6 Herbert Hoover, 1929–1933
Politics Is Not Engineering
Hoover Tries to Fix the Depression, Inadvertently Makes It Great
Out of Office, Hoover Moves Right
Chapter 7 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933–1945
The Modern Left Is Far Left of FDR
The Paradox of FDR
FDR’s Living Constitutionalism
FDR’s Assault on the Judicial Branch
FDR’s Lasting Legacy: A Supreme Court Unconstrained by the Constitution
Chapter 8 Harry Truman, 1945–1953
The Self-Taught Statesman
Truman’s Last Great Achievement: Cold War Strategy
Abuse of Executive Power
Chapter 9 Dwight David (“Ike”) Eisenhower, 1953–1961
A Master Manager
Not an Ideological Conservative
Chapter 10 John F. Kennedy, 1961–1963
Kennedy’s Recklessness
Character and Performance in Office
Botching the Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK, Supply-Sider
Kennedy’s Political Legacy
JFK’s Constitutional Legacy
Chapter 11 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963–1969
The “Great Society” and the “War on Poverty”: Johnson Fails at Home
The Vietnam War: Johnson Fails Abroad
A Low Point in Judicial History
Chapter 12 Richard M. Nixon, 1969–1974
Nixon’s Complicated Character and Forgotten Magnanimity
The Embattled President
The Folly of Détente
Nixon’s Liberalism on Domestic Policy
Getting Watergate Wrong
Nixon’s Constitutional Legacy
Chapter 13 Gerald Ford, 1974–1977
Stagflation at Home
Weakness Abroad
A Mixed Record on the Constitution
Chapter 14 James Earl Carter, 1977–1981
Carter’s Character
Domestic Policy Disasters
President Malaise
Foreign Policy Disasters
President Carter’s Constitutional Grade
Chapter 15 Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981–1989
Reagan the Restorer
Reagan’s Unfinished Agenda
The Pro-Life President
The President’s Prerogative Power
One Bull’s Eye and Two Close Shots
Chapter 16 George H. W. Bush, 1989–1993
Squandering the Reagan Legacy
Bush Abroad
A Split Decision
Chapter 17 William Jefferson Clinton, 1993–2001
By Order of the President
Clinton’s Monument Valley
I Beg Your Pardon
From Odometers to Anteaters
Things Go Better with Coke
Close Enough for Government Work
Family Values
Rich and Pinky
Descent to the Murky Bottom
The High Cost of Bad Character
Radicals in Black Robes
Chapter 18 George Walker Bush, 2001–2009
“Events, Dear Boy”
More Compassionate Than Conservative?
Defending America, Enraging the Left
Bush and the Constitution
Chapter 19 Barack Hussein Obama, 2009–?
Obama’s “Fourth Wave” Ambitions
The Nature of Obama’s Radicalism
Obama’s Contempt for the Middle Class
A Citizen of the World
Holding the Constitution in Contempt
Conclusion: Taking the Oath Seriously
Selected Bibliography
Index
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