Where They Stand
The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians
The author of the acclaimed biography of President James Polk, A Country of Vast Designs, offers a fresh, playful, and challenging way of playing Rating the Presidents,” by pitching historians' views and subsequent experts' polls against the judgment and votes of the presidents' own contemporaries. Merry posits that presidents rise and fall based on performance, as judged by the electorate. Thus, he explores the presidency by comparing the judgments of historians with how the voters saw things. Was the president reelected? If so, did his party hold office in the next election? Where They Stand examines the chief executives Merry calls Men of…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4516-2543-1
- EAN: 9781451625431
- Produktnummer: 14353691
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'319 KB
- Abbildungen: 20 b&w photos throughout
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Robert Merry
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