Re-rating great presidents

Jefferson and Lincoln
Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln are considered to be among the country's best presidents. In his new book, "The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game," historian Alvin Felzenberg develops a new system for evaluating a president's performance.
Courtesy of whitehouse.gov and the Smithsonian

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