President #36, C-SPAN Historians’ Ranking #11 In Treatment Lyndon Baines Johnson was President for just a little over five years. However, if you try to read some of the biographies that have written about him, you may feel like you need five years to get through all of them. Robert Caro has written three volumes [...]
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President #17, C-SPAN Historians’ ranking #41 You Cannot Stop Reading This Unless You Have Prior Approval of the U.S. Senate Andrew Johnson’s story could have been one of the most inspiring in American history. Here was a man born in to extreme poverty, with no formal education at all, and, through very hard work and [...]
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President #5, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #14 What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? James Monroe was the last of a series of three Virginia presidents, following Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. And, since he didn’t write the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, Monroe is remembered mainly for his eponymous foreign policy doctrine. And, some people [...]
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Somebody had to be the worst President. And Jean H. Baker doesn’t spare the feelings of anyone who is a James Buchanan fan.
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President #7, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #13 Coming soon to an ATM near you! Just who was Andrew Jackson? Was he the first president to create a political following among the masses and ride that to power? Was he a shameless opportunist who pandered to the lowest common denominator? Was he a war hero? Was he [...]
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