The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire,H. W. Crocker III

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire (Book/ Papberback)

by H. W. Crocker III

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What Makes a President Great?

Academics, journalists, and popular historians agree. Our greatest presidents are the ones who confronted a national crisis and mobilized the entire nation to face it. That’s the conventional wisdom. The chief executives who are celebrated in textbooks and placed in the top echelon of presidents in surveys of experts are the "bold" leaders - the Woodrow Wilsons and Franklin Roosevelts - who reshaped the United States in line with their grand "vision" for America.

Unfortunately, along the way, these "great" presidents inevitably expanded government - and shrunk our liberties.

As the twentieth-century presidency has grown far beyond the bounds the Founders established for the office, the idea that our chief executive is responsible to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States" has become a distant memory.

Historian and celebrated Reagan biographer Steven F. Hayward reminds us that the Founders had an entirely different idea of greatness in the presidential office. The personal ambitions, populist appeals, and bribes paid to the voters with their own money that most modern presidents engage in would strike them as instances of the demagoguery they most feared - one of the great dangers to the people’s liberty that they wrote the Constitution explicitly to guard against. The Founders, in contrast to today’s historians, expected great presidents to be champions of the limited government established by the Constitution.

Working from that almost forgotten standard of presidential greatness, Steven Hayward offers a fascinating off-the-beaten-track tour through the modern presidency, from the Progressive Era’s Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama. Along the way, he serves up fresh historical insights, recalls forgotten anecdotes, celebrates undervalued presidents who took important stands in defense of the Constitution - and points the way to a revival of truly constitutional government in America.

What you didn’t learn from your history teacher, but will find in The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents:

Progressive hero Woodrow Wilson aired a pro - Ku Klux Klan movie at the White House

Calvin Coolidge, much mocked by liberal historians as a bland Babbitt, was the last president to write his own speeches, guided the country through years of prosperity and limited government, and was one of the most cultured men ever to live in the White House

Why Eisenhower’s two biggest mistakes as president were, in his own words "both sitting on the Supreme Court"

How as president JFK took mind-altering drugs, many of them prescribed by a physician he called "Dr. Feelgood," who later lost his medical license for malpractice

Nixon’s hysterically vilified Christmas bombing of North Vietnam in 1972 caused very few civilian casualties and compelled North Vietnam to negotiate an end to the Vietnam War

The misunderestimated George W. Bush read 186 books during his presidency, mostly non-fiction, biography, and history

About the Author(s)

H. W. Crocker III

H. W. Crocker III is the author of the bestselling Robert E. Lee on Leadership, Executive Editor of Regnery Publishing, consulting editor for Eagle Book Clubs, and a former speechwriter for the Governor of CA. Educated in England and California, H. W. Crocker III currently resides in Northern Virginia.

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Product Details

Category: History

Format: Book (Papberback)

Publisher: Regnery Publishing Inc

Date Published: Oct 24, 2011

Language: English

ISBN: 9781596986299

SKU: LT-2668

Dimensions: 7.25 x 9.00 x 1.00 (in)

Weight: 24.30 oz



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