Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 2
From Wilson to Obama
Published on 9. January 2017
256 pages
978-1-62157-663-1 (ISBN)
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A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!
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Steven F.Hayward
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Not What the Founders Had in Mind
- The Presidency Has Grown-and the Citizens Have Shrunk
- What Makes a Truly Great President?
- Measuring Presidents-the Forgotten Yardstick
- The Constitution Ignored
- Chapter 2: The Presidency the Founders Created
- The Electoral College and the Creation of "Deliberative Majorities"
- The Founders on the Character of the Executive Office
- George Washington's Republican Modesty
- Our Early Presidents: Defenders of the Constitution
- The Birth of the Modern Presidency
- Grading the Presidents
- Chapter 3: Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
- Wilson the Conservative?
- The Revolutionary President
- Wilsonian "Progress" on a Collision Course with the Constitution
- Wilson's "Mature Freedom" versus the Founders' "Liberty"
- Wilson on the President: Visionary Leader, Voice of the People, and Crusher of the Opposition
- Wilson, Enthusiast for Bureaucracy
- Arrogance in Office
- Chapter 4: Warren G. Harding, 1921-1923
- The Most Underrated Modern President
- An Unlikely Nomination, a Landslide Election
- Harding, the Anti-Wilson
- Solid Achievements in Foreign Affairs
- Harding on the Constitution
- Harding's Posthumous Reputation
- The Scandals
- Chapter 5: Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
- A Classical American Education
- Rising Political Star
- Coolidge in the White House
- Coolidge's One Supreme Court (Dis)Appointment
- Chapter 6: Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933
- Politics Is Not Engineering
- Hoover Tries to Fix the Depression, Inadvertently Makes It Great
- Out of Office, Hoover Moves Right
- Chapter 7: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
- The Modern Left Is Far Left of FDR
- The Paradox of FDR
- FDR's Living Constitutionalism
- FDR's Assault on the Judicial Branch
- FDR's Lasting Legacy: A Supreme Court Unconstrained by the Constitution
- Chapter 8: Harry Truman, 1945-1953
- The Self-Taught Statesman
- Truman's Last Great Achievement: Cold War Strategy
- Abuse of Executive Power
- Chapter 9: Dwight David ("Ike") Eisenhower, 1953-1961
- A Master Manager
- Not an Ideological Conservative
- Chapter 10: John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963
- Kennedy's Recklessness
- Character and Performance in Office
- Botching the Cuban Missile Crisis
- JFK, Supply-Sider
- Kennedy's Political Legacy
- JFK's Constitutional Legacy
- Chapter 11: Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
- The "Great Society" and the "War on Poverty": Johnson Fails at Home
- The Vietnam War: Johnson Fails Abroad
- A Low Point in Judicial History
- Chapter 12: Richard M. Nixon, 1969-1974
- Nixon's Complicated Character and Forgotten Magnanimity
- The Embattled President
- The Folly of Détente
- Nixon's Liberalism on Domestic Policy
- Getting Watergate Wrong
- Nixon's Constitutional Legacy
- Chapter 13: Gerald Ford, 1974-1977
- Stagflation at Home
- Weakness Abroad
- A Mixed Record on the Constitution
- Chapter 14: James Earl Carter, 1977-1981
- Carter's Character
- Domestic Policy Disasters
- President Malaise
- Foreign Policy Disasters
- President Carter's Constitutional Grade
- Chapter 15: Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
- Reagan the Restorer
- Reagan's Unfinished Agenda
- The Pro-Life President
- The President's Prerogative Power
- One Bull's Eye and Two Close Shots
- Chapter 16: George H. W. Bush, 1989-1993
- Squandering the Reagan Legacy
- Bush Abroad
- A Split Decision
- Chapter 17: William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
- By Order of the President
- Clinton's Monument Valley
- I Beg Your Pardon
- From Odometers to Anteaters
- Things Go Better with Coke
- Close Enough for Government Work
- Family Values
- Rich and Pinky
- Descent to the Murky Bottom
- The High Cost of Bad Character
- Radicals in Black Robes
- Chapter 18: George Walker Bush, 2001-2009
- "Events, Dear Boy"
- More Compassionate than Conservative?
- Defending America, Enraging the Left
- Bush and the Constitution
- Chapter 19: Barack Hussein Obama, 2009-2017
- Obama's "Fourth Wave" Ambitions
- The Nature of Obama's Radicalism
- Obama's Contempt for the Middle Class
- A Citizen of the World
- Holding the Constitution in Contempt
- Conclusion: Taking the Oath Seriously
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
