C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb and co-CEO Susan Swain talk about their new book, “The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America’s Best – and Worst – Chief Executives,” which provides a complete ranking of the presidents based on the network’s much-cited Historian Surveys of Presidential Leadership.
D.C.-based historians Kenneth Ackerman and David O. Stewart, who are featured in chapters on James Garfield and Andrew Johnson, will also participate in the conversation.
Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and worst of America’s presidents across a variety of categories including their ability to persuade the public, their leadership skills, moral authority and more.
Based on interviews conducted over the years with a variety of presidential biographers, this book provides not just a complete ranking of our presidents, but stories and analyses that capture the character of the men who held the office.
The event was introduced by John Maynard from the Newseum who also led the panel discussion.
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