It’s out now. The updated edition of my (strangely) best-selling book The American Presidents Without the Boring Bits.
If you purchased it as an ebook from amazon.com, or amazon.co.uk or any other amazon site, I believe this is available as a free update (just go into your purchases and click the button by the title to update it).
You can also pick it up via my online store, here.
It’s a brief history of all the American Presidents – updated with a new intro and finally a chapter of number 44: Barack Obama – all told through the lens of a classical-liberal perspective.
More than that, this book was, way back in 2008/2009, my discovery of how the presidents that governed least often governed best. There have been a slew of so-called “mediocre presidents” according to the canon of history literature. But you know what? Generally, those “mediocre” presidents typically presided over proportionally some of the fastest levels of progress of American life; in terms of social mobility, economic prosperity and, heck, good old-fashioned happiness.
I wear my heart on my sleeve during the book, but I hope you’ll take it in the lightness of spirit for which it’s intended. There’s more than a few moments where I take a sledgehammer to conventional wisdom and, indeed, the conventional “cataloguing” of the American presidents that most historians subscribe to. Warren G. Harding is often listed as the worst American president ever (seriously? Worse than Teddy Roosevelt?), but that’s not even remotely fair. There’s plenty of that in there.
But it’s also fun, brief and hopefully, a little thought-provoking. I’m personally really proud of the new chapter of Obama. I think I’ve been fair, and summarised his accomplishments (and failures) in the best way I could.
Anyway, if you’re interested, the ebook edition is dirt cheap, so please do grab your copy for Kindle now.
Enjoy
Your friend,
Andy.
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