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04-19-2016, 10:43 PM
44 books on 44 presidents: Worst. President. Ever.
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Editor's **te: This is the fifteenth entry in the writer's year-long project to read one book about each of the U.S. Presidents by Election Day 2016. You can also follow Marcus' progress at the @44in52 (https://twitter.com/44in52) Twitter account and with this 44 in 52 Spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ekPO5hQQbunVqUz1c5nDcF9MOGIOyaQ08YwKmUc2FiE/edit#gid=0).
Worst. President. Ever.
That's pretty impressive when you consider the names (https://web.archive.org/web/20100706090046/http://www.siena.edu/pages/179.asp?item=2566) he's up against, but, more (http://www.usnews.com/news/special-reports/the-worst-presidents/slideshows/the-10-worst-presidents/12) often than **t in polls of historians, James Buchanan handily takes that title.*
SEE ALSO: 44 books on 44 presidents: A handsome Democratic failure (http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/franklin-pierce/)
Still hobbled by a bad back and desperate to get out of this run of mediocre presidents (Lincoln is so close, you guys),*I treated Buchanan like I did his predecessor: a one-day blitz through a short book in hopes of putting him behind me. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/19/44in52-james-buchanan/)
More about Civil War (http://mashable.com/category/civil-war/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), James Buchanan (http://mashable.com/category/james-buchanan/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), 44 In 52 (http://mashable.com/category/44-in-52/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Entertainment (http://mashable.com/entertainment/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/_A_cOaGQv5o
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Editor's **te: This is the fifteenth entry in the writer's year-long project to read one book about each of the U.S. Presidents by Election Day 2016. You can also follow Marcus' progress at the @44in52 (https://twitter.com/44in52) Twitter account and with this 44 in 52 Spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ekPO5hQQbunVqUz1c5nDcF9MOGIOyaQ08YwKmUc2FiE/edit#gid=0).
Worst. President. Ever.
That's pretty impressive when you consider the names (https://web.archive.org/web/20100706090046/http://www.siena.edu/pages/179.asp?item=2566) he's up against, but, more (http://www.usnews.com/news/special-reports/the-worst-presidents/slideshows/the-10-worst-presidents/12) often than **t in polls of historians, James Buchanan handily takes that title.*
SEE ALSO: 44 books on 44 presidents: A handsome Democratic failure (http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/franklin-pierce/)
Still hobbled by a bad back and desperate to get out of this run of mediocre presidents (Lincoln is so close, you guys),*I treated Buchanan like I did his predecessor: a one-day blitz through a short book in hopes of putting him behind me. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/19/44in52-james-buchanan/)
More about Civil War (http://mashable.com/category/civil-war/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), James Buchanan (http://mashable.com/category/james-buchanan/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), 44 In 52 (http://mashable.com/category/44-in-52/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Entertainment (http://mashable.com/entertainment/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/_A_cOaGQv5o