Rating America's Presidents

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

De: Robert Spencer

Narrado por: Rick Adamson

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.

A lot of good information

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

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.

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.

Great book; audiobook so so

This is absolutely informative and falls within my politics. Although I think the last three chapters cutoff. I'm sure of it. I'll have to read the actually book to figure the missing details.