Like to rank Presidential performance? In a review (may be under subscription) of the book
The Leaders We Deserved (and a few we didn’t) by Alvin S. Felzenberg, reviewer and Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund gives us some insights into the rather different presidential ranking system Felzenberg has devised.
Readers of this blog will be particularly interested to know that Felzenberg makes a deliberate attempt to incorporate presidential attention to civil liberties and individual rights into the final score. The result is that some historically high-ranking Commanders-in-Chief lose a bit of their traditional ranking status, while others advance.
Fund isn’t endorsing this as the definitive statement on which Presidents have been our best leaders, but does rank Felzenberg’s book among those likely to become an ongoing component of presidential leadership discussions in the coming months.
