Rating America's Presidents

An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was an Absolute Disaster

By: Robert Spencer

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

Most historians of the American presidency - walking in lockstep with today's hard-left academic establishment - favor presidents who were big-government statists and globalists. They dislike presidents who lowered taxes, protected American workers, and avoided getting the United States entangled in foreign conflicts that had nothing to do with protecting the American people. It is through that prism that they see all of American history.

It's time for a change. Nowadays, with socialism massively discredited and internationalism facing more opposition than it has since before World War II, it's time to reevaluate what the leftist historians have told us. Donald Trump was elected president pledging to put America first, as any nation's leader should put his or her own people first. There needs to be an America-first reevaluation of him and his predecessors.

This book, therefore, rates the presidents not on the basis of criteria developed by socialist internationalist historians, but on their fidelity to the United States Constitution and to the powers, and limits to those powers, of the president as delineated by the Founding Fathers. America's presidents are rated on the extent to which they put America first - not in the sense of a narrow isolationism, but whether they really advanced the interests of the American people.

©2020 Robert Spencer (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Fascinating Overview of all 45 Presidents

This is a great place to learn about our commanders in Chief, getting to know the lesser-remembered ones, as well as a fresh view of the iconic heroes we learned about in school; JFK, Franklin Roosevelt and so on. Some of the ratings may surprise you.

I wouldn't call the author biased. Rather, he's mindful of the presidential oath to preserve, protect and defend the U.S. Constitution--that is, putting his country first. This is the yardstick by which every president, regardless of party, is measured. Why, for example, should we send troops to fight prolonged, undeclared limited wars on the other side of the world that don't affect US interests? Or limit immigration regardless of the reason? As far as Islamic countries, he warns that whatever help we give them, we'll still be infidels in their eyes--but I see there are other whole books written about that subject.

The narrator's voice is clear and conversational, not distracting me from the narrative itself.

Rating American’s President’s

“American First” - What higher standard could there be for an American President! A timely antidote to those that hate America.

A lot of good information

I like how he have a rating of each president & what made them good or harmful to America

That he rated Lincoln a 10. He was a war criminal who destroyed the Union.

Other than Lincoln, and the excessively high rating for Trump, great work. I’d give Trump an 8. He mishandled the people around him. He should have made a statement and fired all Obama holdovers. He hired horrible people.

Most Informative

This is a wonderful book as the author points out that all great presidents should be judged by their performance upholding our constitution. The narrator's voice is soft and easy to entreat. The content is very informative. This is a true and accurate assessment of the history of our presidents and their ranking

HORRIBLE RIGHT WING

HIS BOOK WAS ONE SIDED I WANTED TO KNOW BOTH SIDES OF THE STORIES. IN THIS BOOK NONE OF THE LEFT WING PRESIDENT DID ANY GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY ONLY VERY BAD, SO I READ HOW BAD FDR WAS THEN I KNEW HE WAS FULL OF IT ,ONE SIDED RIGHT WING FANATIC

A Historian Whom Gives Opinion is No Historian at All

I love US History! The concept of rating Presidents excites me. So, I was pretty pumped to hear about this book and (not knowing anything about the author,) dug in right-away. I can tell you that my excitement for this book quickly dwindled away the moment I realized that Robert Spencer, the author, infused his anti-Muslim “, right-wing conservative notions within the text.

I am curious to know how a credible historian can rate a sitting president a perfect 10/10. One: his time in office isn’t over (he could have 4 more years). Two: 300,000 Americans have died from a pandemic the current President attempted to down play. The intro to Trump includes a full minute of slamming Hillary Clinton?

After getting through reconstruction, the conclusion I came to was this: If you hated Indians, despised the inevitable global connection that we have today, and hated centralized bank, you were awesome. At one point in this book, Spencer refers to Jackson as a humanitarian. Rates Jackson an 8/10 and blames Van Buren for the national financial crisis caused by Jackson’s policies.

There are some cool facts that I learned about President that most have forgotten about, which is cool.

So read it for simple tid-bit facts and stories. Spencer is the least credible historian that I have read. 30% of this book is laughable.

Author: Robert Spencer
Type of Author: Good for people who align with his beliefs, terrible for those that want to learn about American history.
Rating: 3/10

Obvious conservative.

Definitely a bias view on what he thinks makes a great president. Was hoping for a nonbias view. I guess one star for revealing the criteria is using.