The leaders we deserved (and a few we didn't) : rethinking the presidential rating game
- New York Basic books 2008.
- 442p.
Its a perennial pastime to compare U.S. presidents, but our current ranking systems are riddled with flaws. In The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didnt), Alvin Stephen Felzenberg offers logical categories of measuring presidential performance—character, vision, competence, legacy, and so on—while assessing, for each, the best and worst weve seen.A fresh and imaginative look at how our presidents stack up against one another, The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didnt) uniquely deliberates on the standard “greats of our countrys history, giving them the critical consideration they deserve.