Star-Spangled Men
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Star-Spangled Men

America's Ten Worst Presidents

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Star-Spangled Men

America's Ten Worst Presidents

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Picking America's best presidents is easy. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt usually lead the list, But choosing the nation's worst presidents requires more thought. In Star-Spangled Men, respected presidential biographer Nathan Miller puts on display those leaders who were abject failures as chief executive. With pointed humor and a deft hand, he presents a rogues' gallery of the men who dropped the presidential ball, and sometimes their pants as well.
Miller includes Richard M. Nixon, who was forced to resign to escape impeachment; Jimmy Carter, who proved that the White House is not the place for on-the-job training; and Warren G. Harding, who gave "being in the closet" new meaning as he carried on extramarital interludes in one near the Oval Office. This current edition also includes a new assessment of Bill Clinton -- who has admitted lying to his family, his aides, his cabinet, and the American people.

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Publisher
Scribner
Year
2008
ISBN
9781439125731
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

NOTES

CHAPTER I

1Quoted in Dallek, Hail to the Chief, 195.
2Smith, The Power Game, 337-39.
3Burns, The Crosswinds of Freedom, 530.
4Quoted in DeGregorio, The Complete Book of Presidents, 630.
5Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1979.
6Baltimore Sun, January 7, 1979.
7Kaufman, The Presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr., 9-10.
8Hertzberg, Character Above All, 180.
9Stroud, How Jimmy Won, 133.
10Lasky, Jimmy Carter, 23-24.
11Boller, Presidential Anecdotes, 340.
12In the best book on Carter’s background, Glad, Jimmy Carter.
13Carter, Why Not the Best? 7-8.
14Ibid., 14.
15The Lucky Bag, 1947.
16Carter, Why Not the Best? 58.
17Ibid., 64.
18DeGregorio, Complete Book of Presidents, 620.
19Jordan’s memo is in Stroud, How Jimmy Won.
20Boller, Presidential Anecdotes, 341.
21The most complete account of Carter’s presidency is Kaufman, Presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr.
22Kaufman, ibid., 30.
23Burns, Crosswinds of Freedom, 558-60.
24Dallek, Hail to the Chief, 35.
25Donovan, Roosevelt to Reagan, 235.
26For the Iranian affair, see Sick, All Fall Down, chapter 5.

CHAPTER II

1Russell, The President Makers, 87.
2Anderson, William Howard Taft, 4.
3Boller, Presidential Anecdotes, 215.
4Coletta, The Presidency of William Howard Taft, 2.
5Burton, William Howard Taft, 11.
6Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, 21.
7The Autobiography of William Allen White, 425-26.
8Manners, TR and Will, 47.
9Roosevelt, Autobiography, 364-65.
10Quoted in Miller, Theodore Roosevelt, 485.
11Ibid., 486.
12Longworth, Crowded Hours, 145.
13Manners, TR and Will, 53.
14Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 4, pp. 331-32.
15For Taft’s early life, see Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, vol. I.
16Manners, TR and Will, 32.
17Russell, President Makers, 91.
18Coletta, Presidency of William Howard Taft, 4.
19Manners, TR and Will, 17.
20Russell, President Makers, 110-11.
21See Coletta, Presidency of William Howard Taft, chapter 3, for the fight over the Payne-Aldrich Tariff.
22Ibid., chapter 4, for the Ballinger-Pinchot affair.
23Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, 418.
24Russell, Presidency Makers, 118.
25Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, 839.
26Russell, President Makers, 123.
27Ibid., 122.
28Boller, Presidential Anecdotes, 216.
29Manners, TR and Will, 305.
30Burton, William Howard Taft, 129.

CHAPTER III

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. CONTENTS
  5. PROLOGUE
  6. FOREWORD TO THE TOUCHSTONE EDITION
  7. JIMMY CARTER
  8. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
  9. BENJAMIN HARRISON
  10. CALVIN COOLIDGE
  11. ULYSSES S GRANT
  12. ANDREW JOHNSON
  13. FRANKLIN PIERCE
  14. JAMES BUCHANAN
  15. WARREN GAMALIEL HARDING
  16. RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON
  17. THOMAS JEFFERSON AND JOHN F KENNEDY THE TWO MOST OVERRATED PRESIDENTS
  18. NOTES
  19. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  20. INDEX