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Historians rank US presidents based on criteria such as crisis leadership, public persuasion, and policy achievements, with some presidents consistently ranked low
Donald J. Trump is unquestionably one of the most polarizing modern presidents, frequently at or near the top of public “most hated” lists, but scholarly historical rankings typically place far earlie...
Scholarly and popular “worst president” lists repeatedly single out a small cluster of nineteenth- and early-twentieth‑century chiefs—James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Herbert Hoover an...
Historians most frequently tie -of-us-presidents">mass human suffering to presidents who mismanaged existential crises, upheld or expanded institutions of slavery, or pursued policies that produced la...