A recent poll of college students discovered that a plurality of students voted for Obama as the “best” American president in history.
Topic: U.S. Presidents
Rating the Presidents – and Obama
Editor’s Note: This report originally appeared at the American Spectator. I’ve been getting emails from bewildered colleagues asking about a survey of presidential scholars that determined that Barack Obama is the 12th best president in the history…
Coolidge Silent No More
Clearly we have to reach beyond academia if we want to reclaim our history. “Calvin Coolidge had four percent growth which candidates today only talk about as a goal,” Amity Shlaes, the former Wall Street…
Ranking 20th Century U.S. Presidents
Since everybody else is rating presidents, we thought we’d give it a shot too, since we’ve covered many of them, especially those who served in the last century. The root of the word president, eminent…