All Posts Tagged With: "presidents"
Historical Reputations
In an election year it is useful to try to remove oneself from the hubbub of daily campaign news and advertisements and to imagine how the candidates will be viewed by historians. This is not a simple exercise, and the attempt will reveal a number of widespread attitudes that affect our view of both past [...]
1Nov2008 | Stephen Davies | 0 comments | ContinuedGrover Cleveland: A Study in Character by Alyn Brodsky
St. Martin’s Press • 2000 • 496 pages • $35.00 Having just endured vacuousness on a grand scale in the last presidential campaign and eight years of verbal subterfuge and prevarication under Bill Clinton, Americans are in need of an inspiration from their political past. They have it in the person of our principled 22nd [...]
1May2001 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedMy Kind of President
When historians are asked to grade the men who have served as America’s presidents, they usually give high marks to the so-called “activist” ones—those who expanded the frontiers of the central government, pushed taxes and spending higher, and left a mark on the country by foisting vast new bureaucracies on future generations. I prefer activist [...]
1Mar1996 | Lawrence W. Reed | 3 comments | Continued-
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