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Electing Presidents

HNN Guide: Who Should Be the Next Commander-in-Chief? Moral Leader-in-Chief? Educator-in-Chief? Statesman-in-Chief? Politician-in-Chief?

Presidents: What Made Them Great (Or Not So Great)

Presidency: Why Are Great Men Not Chosen President? by Lord Bryce

Presidency: How Do Historians Evaluate the Administration of Abraham Lincoln? by Matthew Pinsker

Presidency: How Do Historians Evaluate the Administration of Harry Truman? by Alonzo Hamby

Presidency: How Do Historians Evaluate the Administration of Jimmy Carter? by Stephen Hess

Presidency: How Do Historians Evaluate the Administrations of TR and JFK? by Bruce Miroff

Presidency: How Do Historians Assess Ronald Reagan? by Chester Pach

Presidency: How Do Historians Evaluate the Administration of Dwight Eisenhower? by Fred Greenstein

Presidency: What It Takes to Be President (Eisenhower case study) by Rick Shenkman

Presidency: How do Historians Evaluate the Administration of John Kennedy? by Thomas Reeves

Presidency: How Do Historians Evaluate the Administration of Lyndon Johnson? by Robert Dallek

Presidency: How Do Historians Evaluate the Administration of Richard Nixon? by Mel Small

Presidency: Why I Think History Will Be Kind to Nixon by Walter A. McDougall