What Makes a Great President?

Steven F. Hayward Examines the Records of Our Past 17 Presidents, Revealing the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly like Never BeforeLike so many modern presidents before him, President Barack Obama promised Americans everything in his State of the Union Address—from tax-code reform to bringing jobs back to the U.S. to new watch-dog agencies that will round up all of those bad guys on Wall Street. Obama clearly intends to continue expanding the power of government agencies and the scope of his own office—the office of the President of theUnited States. Steven F. Hayward’s revealing new book, The