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Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents

Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents

Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents
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Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents

by Miller, Nathan

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New York: Scribner, 1998. First Printing. very good, very good. 272, illus., notes, bibliography, index, soiling to a few pages, front DJ flap price clipped. Inscribed by the author. The ten worst Presidents, in the author's view, are Jimmy Carter, William Howard Taft, Benjamin Harrison, Calvin Coolidge, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Warren G. Harding, and Richard M. Nixon. In an epilogue, the author considers the two most overrated Presidents--Thomas Jefferson and John F. Kennedy.

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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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Title
Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents
Author
Miller, Nathan
Book Condition
Used - very good, very good
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Edition
First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0684836106
ISBN 13
9780684836102
Publisher
Scribner
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1998
Keywords
U.S. Presidents, Jimmy Carter, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Warren G. Harding, Richard M. Nixon, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Inscribed

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