Includes bibliographical references and index

Foreword : Presidents, greatness, and history / by William J. Bennett -- Introduction : The presidency, Federalist no. 10, and the Constitution / by Steven G. Calabresi -- The rankings -- The presidents. George Washington (1789-97) / by Richard Brookhiser -- John Adams (1797-1801) / by Matthew Spalding -- Thomas Jefferson (1801-09) / by Forrest McDonald -- James Madison (1809-17) / by Lynne Cheney -- James Monroe (1817-25) / by David B. Rivkin, Jr., and Mark Wendell DeLaquil -- John Quincy Adams (1825-29) by Richard Norton Smith -- Andrew Jackson (1829-37) / by H.W. Brands -- Martin Van Buren (1837-41) / by John Steele Gordon -- William Henry Harrison (1841) / by Glenn Harlan Reynolds -- John Tyler (1841-45) / by John S. Baker, Jr. -- James Knox Polk (1845-49) / by Douglas G. Brinkley -- Zachary Taylor (1849-50) / by Brendan Miniter -- Millard Fillmore (1850-53) / by Melanie Kirkpatrick -- Franklin Pierce (1853-57) / by Cynthia Crossen -- James Buchanan (1857-61) / by Christopher Buckley -- Abraham Lincoln (1861-65) / by Jay Winik -- Andrew Johnson (1865-69) / by Jeffrey K. Tulis -- Ulysses Simpson Grant (1869-77) / by Michael Barone --

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1877-81) / by Ari Hoogenboom -- James Abram Garfield (1881) / by Allan Peskin -- Chester Alan Arthur (1881-85) / by John J. DiIulio, Jr. -- Stephen Grover Cleveland (1885-89, 1893-97) / by Suzanne Garment -- Benjamin Harrison (1889-93) / by Jessica King -- William McKinley (1897-1901 / by Fred Barnes -- Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) / by John S. McCain -- William Howard Taft (1909-13) / by Theodore B. Olson -- Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1913-21) / by Max Boot -- Warren Gamaliel Harding (1921-23) / by Jeremy Rabkin -- John Calvin Coolidge (1923-29) / by John O. McGinnis --Herbert Clark Hoover (1929-33) / by Robert H. Ferrell -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-45) / by Robert H. Bork -- Harry S. Truman (1945-53) / by Terry Eastland -- Dwight David Eisenhower (1953-61) / by Edwin Meese III -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961-63) / by Peggy Noonan -- Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-69) / by Robert Dallek -- Richard Milhous Nixon (1969-74) / by Kenneth W. Starr -- Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (1974-77) / by Thomas J. Bray -- James Earl Carter, Jr. (1977-81) / by Joshua Muravchik -- Ronald Wilson Reagan (1981-89) / by Harvey C. Mansfield -- George Herbert Walker Bush (1989-93) / by Pete du Pont -- William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001) / by Paul Johnson -- George Walker Bush (2001- ) / by Paul A. Gigot --

Issues in presidential leadership. Presidential leadership in economic policy / by Robert L. Bartley -- Presential leadership during wartime / by Victor Davis Hanson -- Presidential leadership and the judiciary / by Robert P. George -- Presidential leadership after disputed elections / by James Taranto -- Appendixes : Methodology of rankings / by James Lindgren -- Survey participants -- Election data, 1789-2000

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