Where They Stand

The author of the acclaimed biography of President James Polk offers a fresh, playful, and challenging way of playing America's favorite game—by pitching historians' views and subsequent experts' polls against the judgment and votes of the presidents' own contemporaries.

Robert W. Merry presents a fresh, playful, and challenging way of playing America's favorite game, "Rating the Presidents,” by pitching historian's views and experts' polls against the judgment and votes of the presidents' contemporaries.