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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 973 EAN: 9780271024868 Edition: 2 Updated ISBN: 0271024860 Label: Pennsylvania State University Press Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 180 Publication Date: December 31, 1988 Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Release Date: December 31, 1988 Studio: Pennsylvania State University Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Murray and Blessing have picked up the baton, as it were, from Schlesinger as the recorders of temporal evolution in the opinions of historians regarding U.S. presidents. The results of their recent update poll, subsequent to the publication of Greatness in the White House, of just under five hundred historians-the first such poll to include Ronald Reagan-were presented at a meeting of the Organization of American Historians in April, 1991. . . . The most ambitious objective of studies of presidential greatness, suggested in the authors' summary, is to identify the characteristics which make a successful president, in order to predict the performance of candidates. Murray and Blessing provide a fairly comprehensive survey of the studies that attempt this.-Maryland Historical MagazinePraise for the first edition"Greatness in the White House provides us with the latest of the presidential polls, and the finest. . . . In seven chapters and a concluding section, [Murray and Blessing] discuss the ratings game, past polls as well as their own. Successive chapters follow on appearance, background, character, personality, and administrative achievements-as rating criteria- and reactions to presidential rankings."-The Historian"Those who criticize presidential ranking 'games' for attempting to quantify the unquantifiable should welcome this report, possibly as much for what it tells us about American historians as for its specific tabulations."-The Journal of Southern HistoryA narrative account of the survey of almost 1,000 professional historians on what constitutes a successful performance in the presidency, this survey tells us almost as much about the thinking and biases of historians as it does about the nature of the American presidency.Besides comparing past presidential polls and constructing a ranking list of the nation's chief executives, this study examines why historians rate presidents the way they do, and it analyzes those qualities and traits historians look f Average Rating:
 Rating: - Greatness is GreatnessGreatness in the White House by Drs. Blessing and Murray may be a bit outdated, but is worth the read to get an idea about how historians view Presidents and how they rank them. Explores factors in how Presidents are ranked by historians based upon where the professors studied, gender, area of expertise, etc. 
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