Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents, Part 1
From Washington to Taft
Published on 9. January 2017
336 pages
978-1-62157-531-3 (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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Larry Schweikart
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: What Did the Founders Have in Mind?
- Before the Devolution
- How to Expand the Presidency in Three Easy Steps
- Chapter 1: George Washington, 1789-1797
- A Man Who Didn't Need the Job
- A Christian Believer and a Whig President
- Creating the Nation's First Cabinet
- In for a Penny
- More Precedents
- Rejecting America's First Business Bailout
- "First in War . . ."
- A Fight between Our Friends
- "Damn John Jay and Damn John Jay's Treaty"
- America's First Reelection
- Farewell
- The Indispensable Man
- Washington and the Constitution
- Chapter 2: John Adams, 1797-1801
- Crowning Achievement
- The Quasi-War with France
- The Alien and Sedition Acts
- Adams's Place in Presidential History
- Chapter 3: Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
- The Most Critical of All American Elections
- Green Acres
- The Biggest of Big Government Projects
- Deal of the Century
- America's First War on Terror
- The Clock Strikes Midnight on the Midnight Judges
- No Free Lunch
- The Wolf by the Ear
- Grading Jefferson on His Faithfulness to the Constitution
- Chapter 4: James Madison, 1809-1817
- Father of the Constitution
- An Awkward Situation
- Not a Shining Leader
- "We Fired Our Guns and the British Kept A-Comin'"
- "The Public Good May Require Them"
- Madison's Constitutional Grade
- Chapter 5: James Monroe, 1817-1825
- Panic and Depression
- "A Question So Menacing to the Tranquility . . . of Our Union"
- The Monroe Doctrine
- James Monroe, Constitutionalist
- Chapter 6: John Quincy Adams, 1821-1825
- "The American System"
- The Handwriting on the Wall
- The "Slave Power"
- Grading John Quincy Adams
- Chapter 7: Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
- "Stealing from the Many to the Few"
- "I Will Kill It"
- Grading Old Hickory on a Constitutional Scale
- Chapter 8: Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
- Martin Van Buren, Constitutionalist with an Asterisk
- Chapter 9: William Henry Harrison, March 1841-April 1841
- Tickin' Away
- Not Grading Harrison
- Chapter 10: John Tyler, April 1841-1844
- Grading Tyler's Constitutional Scorecard
- Chapter 11: James K. Polk, 1845-1849
- Grading President Polk
- Chapter 12: Zachary Taylor, 1849-July 9, 1850
- The California Compromise
- Taylor: Barely Avoiding the Incomplete
- Chapter 13: Millard Fillmore, July 1850-1853
- Millard Fillmore and the Constitution
- Chapter 14: Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
- Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Congress
- Assessing Pierce
- Chapter 15: James Buchanan, 1857-1861
- Buchanan's Sorry Record
- Chapter 16: Abraham Lincoln, 1861-April 15, 1865
- Rotation in Officers
- Expanding the Government on the "Homefront"
- Lincoln, a President for All Seasons
- Chapter 17: Andrew Johnson, April 15, 1865-1869
- The Failed Presidential Reconstruction
- On to Impeachment!
- Andrew Johnson, R.I.P.
- Chapter 18: Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-1877
- Reforming the Reformers
- Grant's Constitutionalism
- Chapter 19: Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881
- His Fraudulency
- Hayes's Legacy
- Chapter 20: James A. Garfield, March 1881-September 19, 1881
- The Verdict of History
- Chapter 21: Chester A. Arthur, September 19, 1881-1885
- A, B, C, D, Can You Build a Ship for Me?
- Chester Arthur's Solid Term
- Chapter 22: Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889, 1893-1897
- The Union Label
- Hard Money
- Cleveland's Legacy
- Chapter 23: Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
- Harrison's Legacy
- Chapter 24: William McKinley, 1897-September 14, 1901
- An Empire? No Thanks
- Grading McKinley
- Chapter 25: Theodore Roosevelt Jr., September 19, 1901-1909
- The Trustbuster
- Who Was Teddy Roosevelt?
- Chapter 26: William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
- Taft's Legacy
- Conclusion: The First Twenty-Six
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
