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Recarving Rushmore
Ivan Eland
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Description for Recarving Rushmore
Paperback. Num Pages: 526 pages. BIC Classification: JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 40. Weight in Grams: 718.
Evaluating presidents on the merits of whether their policies promoted peace, prosperity, and liberty, this ranking system takes a distinctly new approach. Historians and scholars have long tended to give higher rankings to presidents who served during wartime, were well spoken, or exceeded in expanding the power of the executive office.
However, this new examination cuts through these longstanding biases and political rhetoric to offer a new nonpartisan system of ranking that is based purely on how well each president's policies adhered with the founders' original intention of limiting federal power in all its aspects.
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Evaluating presidents on the merits of whether their policies promoted peace, prosperity, and liberty, this ranking system takes a distinctly new approach. Historians and scholars have long tended to give higher rankings to presidents who served during wartime, were well spoken, or exceeded in expanding the power of the executive office.
However, this new examination cuts through these longstanding biases and political rhetoric to offer a new nonpartisan system of ranking that is based purely on how well each president's policies adhered with the founders' original intention of limiting federal power in all its aspects.
As a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Independent Institute,U.S. United States
Number of pages
526
Condition
New
Number of Pages
526
Place of Publication
Oakland, United States
ISBN
9781598131291
SKU
V9781598131291
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About Ivan Eland
Ivan Eland is a senior fellow and director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute, a former director of defence policy studies at the Cato Institute, and a former principal defence analyst with the Congressional Budget Office. He is the author of The Empire Has No Clothes, No War for Oil, Partitioning for Peace, and Putting ... Read more
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