Father And Son Historians, Arthur M. Schlesinger Essay

Father and son historians, Arthur M. Schlesinger and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., asked some of the top historians in the country to rank each president in the categories Great, Near Great, Average, Below Average, and Failure based on their time in the White House (Schlesinger Jr. 179). The official ranking lists Andrew Jackson as the fifth best president overall, which landed him a comfortable spot in the â€Å"Near Great† category. Andrew Jackson’s presidency belongs in a much lower category due to his immoral character, unilateral decision-making, and his unimpressive presidency relative to that of other presidents. Before expanding on the specifics of why Andrew Jackson does not belong in the â€Å"Near Great† category, the criteria that Andrew Jackson along with other presidents will be analyzed against needs to be outlined. First, the qualifications of each president are of the utmost importance when determining presidential â€Å"greatness.† The quali fications of the president are delineated in Article II of the U.S. Constitution. The president’s established qualifications outlined in Article II are as follows: to be eligible, one must be a natural-born citizen of the United States, must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years, and must be at least 35 years of age (Cornell). Though important, these qualifications alone would allow almost anyone over the age of 35 to be qualified enough to become president. To go above and beyond the baseline criterion, a person needsShow MoreRelatedOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 PagesHistory of Southern Life Lisa M. Fine, The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. Van Gosse and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America Joanne Meyerowitz, ed., History and September 11th John McMillian and Paul Buhle, eds., The New Left Revisited David M. Scobey, Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape Gerda Lerner, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography Allida M. Black, ed., Modern American QueerRead MoreOpportunities23827 Words   |  96 Pagesslowly after the American Revolution, more rapidly in the early 1800s. In 1859, Americans consumed about eight pounds of coffee a year, per capita.22 Many city dwellers enjoyed the drink in coffeehouses. But most men and women, as the industry historian Mark Pendergrast noted, â€Å"drank coffee at home or brewed it over campfires heading west.†23 In the city or on the frontier, the beverage was generally prepared by boiling grounds in water. Some users added eggs or fish skins to the mixture to clarifyRead MoreContemporary Issues in Management Accounting211377 Words   |  846 Pagesroles of the new techniques. The BSC was originally presented as a fairly modest technique for putting Wnancial information in the context of diVerent kinds of non-Wnancial information (Kaplan and Norton 1992), brought to Robert Kaplan’s attention by Arthur Schneiderman of Analog Devices (Kaplan 1998: 99). Subsequently it has been proposed as an all-encompassing management control system that should be at the heart of the strategy-making process (Kaplan and Norton 2001a, 2001b) but without giving much