President #23, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #30 Benjamin in the middle Benjamin Harrison ran for President twice and never got the most popular votes. Republicans chose him to run because he both a famous name (his grandfather was William Henry Harrison) and he came from an important swing state at the time (Indiana). Few of us [...]
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President #9, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #39 Let Me Be Brief… If you mention the name William Henry Harrison to most people, the initial reaction will be “I don’t know anyone by that name.” So, after you get past the people who are completely ignorant of the man, you might get the reaction of “Oh, the [...]
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President #26, C-SPAN historians’ ranking #4 Bullfeathers!!!! There is no person whose has been President who led a life that seems like it came out of a work of fiction more than Theodore Roosevelt. It seemed apropos that a novelist, Louis Auchincloss (The Rector of Justin among many other titles) wrote this biography of a [...]
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President #43, C-SPAN Historians ranking #36 … and of the Son My goal in this blog was to review a biography of every former President. I also wanted to do it in a random order. At first, I assumed I would have a more leisurely stroll through the biographies of the 42ish men who served [...]
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President #41, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #18 In the name of the father … George Herbert Walker Bush (not that anybody called him that when he was President except when he was sworn in) did not have an easy act to follow, succeeding one of America’s most popular Chief Executives in Ronald Reagan. He came into [...]
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