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Ranking the Presidents Since WWII

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Dwight Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, Global Leadership, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Presidents Day 2011, Lyndon Johnson, American Caesars, Harry S Truman, Politics News
Nigel Hamilton

If, on Presidents Day 2011, I had to rank the last twelve presidents since America became the world's most powerful empire in World War II, I'd put them in the following order.

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I Like Ike

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Empire, Germany, 1952 Election, Normandy, Churchill, Suetonius, Journalism, Dwight Eisenhower, Ike, Richard Nixon, 1776 Exhibition, Field Marshal Montgomery, Denis Hamilton, World War II, Holland, Dunkirk, American Caesars, D Day, Politics News
Nigel Hamilton

How those two figures -- Eisenhower and Nixon -- have resurfaced in the news over these past few days!

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Unlisted -- But OK

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Eisenhower, Truman, Virginia Woolf, The New Yorker, George W. Bush, Dr. Johnson, E.M. Forster, Fdr, Biography, Happy Holidays, Joe Scarborough, Reviewers, James Boswell, Courage, Reviews, The Twelve Caesars, C-Span, Norton Smith, Jfk, David Mitchell, Edmund Morris, Joanathan Franzen, American Caesars, Philip Roth, Suetonius, Books News
Nigel Hamilton

Just because you got some wonderful TV coverage doesn't get you on the list of "Reviewers' favorites from 2010."

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Bush At War

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Congress, Richard Clarke, Ronald Reagan, Memoirs, Decision Points, Ron Susskind, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Media, Dick Cheney, Hubris, Condoleezza Rice, Fdr, Self-Portraiture, Blood Money, American Caesars, Philip Roth, The Constitution, Karl Rove, Afghanistan, The Plot Against America, Robert Byrd, Bart Gellman, Al Qaeda, Biography, Lee Atwater, Dwight Eisenhower, Book Royalties, Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson, Iraq, Jfk, Casualties, The Vulcans, Harrytruman, Books News
Nigel Hamilton

What happens when a great nation -- and this is a great nation -- elects a ruler who is not up to the task of being president? The answer is to be found in George W. Bush's memoirs, Decision Points.

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George W. Bush and Thanksgiving

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Bill Clinton, Lee Atwater, Dwight Eisenhower, Dirty Tricks, George H.W. Bush, Decision Points, Franklin D, Harry Truman, George W. Bush, 1988 Presidential Election, Thanksgiving, Lyndon Johnson, Jfk, Roger Ailes, American Caesars, Roosevelt, Mike Dukakis, Politics News
Nigel Hamilton

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness, and gratitude. I'm grateful that the "Bush Years" came to an end in January 2009, and a president took over wh...

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Bush's Decision Points -- Goodwill Hunting

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: History, Bill Clinton, Memoirs, Decision Points, President Barack Obama, George W. Bush, American Caesars, Dick Cheney, Biography, Books News
Nigel Hamilton

I'm up to page 107, so almost a quarter of the way through former President Bush's new memoirs, Decision Points. I had two weeks of acute toothache, b...

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Bush and Memoirs

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: History, How to Do Biography, Martin Luther, Memoirs, Decision Points, Xenophon, Autobiography, George W. Bush, Presidential Memoir, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, American Caesars, Biography, Books News
Nigel Hamilton

Former President Bush has written his recollections and there have been conflicting accounts of what, exactly, they are. Let me try and clarify the distinctions between the various genres of autobiography.

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