Perspectives on presidential leadership: an international view of the White House
In: Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance 15
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributor Biographies; Preface; Introduction: Rating America's Presidents: A UK Perspective; 1 The Meanings of Going First: George Washington and the Presidency; 2 John Quincy Adams: An Exceptionally Average President?; 3 A Poetic Presidency: Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and the Second American Revolution; 4 Andrew Johnson: The Wrong Man in the Wrong Place; 5 A (Near) Great President: Theodore Roosevelt as the First Modern President; 6 Reevaluating the Presidency of Warren G. Harding; 7 Simply the Best: FDR as America's Number One President.