Reading Packet 4
- Presidential Links
- Selections from Lincoln, TR, Taft, FDR, Truman, Nixon
- Lincoln v Lincoln by Jeffrey Rosen
- Jefferson's Letter to John B. Colvin
- Masters of the Matrix by Louis Menand
- Presidential Power and Modern Presidents by Richard E. Neustadt
- A Class of 300 Million by Susan Jacoby (LA Times, 2/17/2008)
- The Rhetorical Presidency by Jeffrey K. Tulis
- How FDR Saved Capitalism in Eight Days by David Greenberg
- The Accountable Presidency by Jack Goldsmith
- The Return of Ulysses by Sean Wilentz (New Republic, 1/25/2010)
- Truman and Coolidge Go Up, Jefferson and Jackson Go Down. How History Remembers Presidents by David Shribman (LA Times, 2/17/2020)
- The Trump Presidency is Now History. So How Will it Rank? by Sarah Lyall (NYT, 1/23/2021)
- Presidents Ranked from Worst to Best by Elisha Feldstadt (CBS, 2/3/2021)
- Maybe Trump Wasn't the Worst President Ever? by Mark K. Updegrove (NYT, 7/1/21)
- How America Changed During Donald Trump's Presidency
Bureaucracy
- The Banality of the 'Banality of Evil' by David Cesarani
- Ministry of Information (Video)
- Bureaucracy Short Cartoon (Video)
- Max Weber & Modernity (Crash Course Sociology Video)
Videos
- Three Greatest Presidents: Washington, Lincoln, FDR (Video)
- Top Ten Best US Presidents
- Top Ten Worst US Presidents
- 60 Second Presidents
- The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents (7 Videos, 1789-1921)
- What Made George Washington Great
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson & His Democracy: Crash Course US History (Video)
- James Monroe
- The Age of Jackson: Crash Course US History (Video)
- Martin Van Buren
- James Polk
- John Tyler: The Most Hated President of the 19th Century
- Milliard Fillmore: A Presidential Portrait
- Judging the Presidency of Franklin Pearce
- The Worst President in US History
- Why Was This Man the Worst President of All Time? (Video)
- Andrew Johnson: First Impeached (1865-68) (Video)
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Ulysses S. Grant and Reconstruction
- The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents: Reconstruction and the Gilded Age (1865-1901)
- Theodore Roosevelt Speech
- Crash Course History: Progressive Presidents
- Woodrow Wilson: A World War and a League of Nations (1913-21) (Video)
- Calvin Coolidge: The Silent President
- Herbert Hoover: The Depression Begins (1929-1933) (Video)
- The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Ken Burns/PBS)
- Decisions That Shook The World: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Video)
- Harry S. Truman: The Accidental President (Video)
- How the Truman Doctrine Established the Cold War
- Dwight Eisenhower: I Like Ike (1953-61) (Video)
- JFK: The Legacy of America's 35th President (Video)
- History of the Cuban Missle Crisis
- Decisions That Shook The World: Lyndon B. Johnson (Video)
- The American Presidents: Richard Nixon (Disney) (Video)
- Frost-Nixon Interview (Part 1)
- Frost-Nixon Interview (Part 2)
- Frost-Nixon Interview (Part 3)
- Frost-Nixon Interview (Part 5)
- SNL Presents the Hall of Presidents
- SNL Presidents
- Crash Course History : Ford, Carter and the Economic Malaise (Video)
- Decisions That Shook The World: Ronald Reagan (Video)
- Crash Course History: The Reagan Revolution (Video)
- Crash Course History: George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War (Video)
- Crash Course History: The Clinton Years or the 1990's (Video)
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