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Of presidents since 1960, only Ronald Reagan and (in interim results) Barack Obama placed in the top ten; Obama was the highest-ranked president since Harry Truman (1945–1953). Most of the other recent presidents held middling positions, though George W. Bush placed in the bottom ten, the lowest-ranked president since Warren Harding (1921 ...
President Jimmy Carter has ping-ponged around historians' rankings, in 2005 hitting his low of 34th place and in 2011 coming in at 18th. In general, his post-presidency work is seen in a more ...
But when experts in the U.S. Presidency are ranking the 45 presidents, and the Republicans and Conservatives rank a recent Republican President forty-third, that seems worth noticing.
As part of C-SPAN's third Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, almost 100 historians and biographers rated the 43 former presidents on ten qualities of presidential leadership: Public ...
Contact with WP US Presidents; Article Date Assessment Comments List of Presidents of the United States: October 30, 2008: List: Defeatured on date given. President of the United States: May 17, 2006: B: Formerly featured but still good. Seal of the President of the United States: July 4, 2009: B: Could be a good article with some TLC. White House
Suppose there was a survey today consisting only of the worst-ranked presidents -- say Harding, Johnson and Buchanan. Whoever ranked 1 this survey would get a major boost to his average, perhaps going above several much higher-ranked presidents. But intuitively such a survey should only affect the candidates' ranking relative to each other. 1.
Former President Barack Obama made third place scoring a high ninth-grade level and Trump was found to have the worst ranking since Harry Truman in 1945 by scoring at a fourth-grade level.
The Leaders We Deserved, also known as The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn't), is a non-fiction book written by historian Alvin S. Felzenberg.Published by Basic Books in 2008, the work chronicles United States history with a specific focus on the relative performances of different national leaders, the author contrasting his categorized approach with what he views as the sloppier record ...