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Their names linger in memory mainly as punch lines, synonyms for obscurity: Millard Fillmore, Chester Arthur, Calvin Coolidge. They conjure up not the White House so much as a decaying middle school somewhere in New Jersey. But many forgotten presidents, writes Michael J. Gerhardt, were not weak or ineffective. They boldly fought battles over constitutional principles that resonate today.
Gerhardt, one of our leading legal experts, tells the story of The Forgotten Presidents. He surveys thirteen administrations in chronological order, from Martin Van Buren to Franklin Pierce to Jimmy Carter, distinguishing political failures from their constitutional impact. Again and again, he writes, they defied popular opinion to take strong stands. Martin Van Buren reacted to an economic depression by withdrawing federal funds from state banks in an attempt to establish the controversial independent treasury system. His objective was to shrink the federal role in the economy, but also to consolidate his power to act independently as president. Prosperity did not return, and he left office under the shadow of failure. Grover Cleveland radically changed his approach in his second (non-consecutive) term. Previously he had held back from interference with lawmakers; on his return to office, he aggressively used presidential power to bend Congress to his will. Now seen as an asterisk, Cleveland consolidated presidential authority over appointments, removals, vetoes, foreign affairs, legislation, and more. Jimmy Carter, too, proves surprisingly significant. In two debt-ceiling crises and battles over the Panama Canal treaty, affirmative action, and the First Amendment, he demonstrated how the presidency's inherent capacity for efficiency and energy gives it an advantage in battles with Congress, regardless of popularity. Gerhardt explains the many things these and ten other presidents have in common that explain why, in spite of any of their excesses, they have become forgotten chief executives.
Incisive, myth-shattering, and compellingly written, this book shows how even obscure presidents championed the White House's prerogatives and altered the way we interpret the Constitution.
- Sales Rank: #732966 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-03-01
- Released on: 2013-03-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
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"The Forgotten Presidents run the gamut, from the truly important like Grover Cleveland to the truly forgettable like William Henry Harrison. But in recovering these stories, Michael Gerhardt reminds us that every president leaves a trace. The occupants of the highest office exercised power to reshape the nation they inherited, and in doing so they all sparked constitutional debates and transformed the constitutional landscape. Even our forgotten presidents helped shape the world we live in; a lesson worth remembering today." --Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University
"Forgotten but not gone. In these captivating stories, Professor Gerhardt shows how even our lesser presidents shaped the constitutional order and the political world that 21st century Americans inhabit." --Michael C. Dorf, Robert S. Stevens Professor, Cornell University Law School
"...Gerhardt's study is a positive contribution to the study of the presidency and the Constitution..." --Congress & the Presidency
About the Author
Michael Gerhardt is Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A nationally recognized authority on constitutional conflicts, he has testified in several Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and has published five books, including The Power of Precedent.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
So many errors...I wasn't sure I could trust it
By Book Trope 9
I just finished reading the book The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy. In it, author Michael Gerhardt details 13 presidents who fit the general descriptor of "forgotten" and explains why they should be more memorable. He restricts himself to just their interpretations of the Constitution, which is too bad, as he misses so much else to discuss. Regardless, part of the fun is Gerhardt's rationale for which presidents he chose. After reading his book, I agree with his choices, and I'm not going to go into his reasonings here, but suffice it to say, it's very interesting why, for example, he leaves out James Garfield (who was president for only 6 months), and Warren Harding, yet includes Calvin Coolidge (who served a term and a half) and Jimmy Carter, who is not only one of our most recent presidents, but is still alive.
But...there was a problem.
The book has lots of errors about basic presidential facts. In the acknowledgments section, Gerhardt thanks his editor "for support above and beyond the call of duty" and for providing "quiet confidence." Perhaps that confidence was a bit too quiet; had the editor truly have gone "above and beyond," he would have caught the mistakes that I found without even trying.
Here are some errors I found:
PAGE 3: Right on the first page of the text, in the second paragraph, Gerhardt says "Martin Van Buren has been eclipsed by the six men who preceeded him as president," and the next sentence calls Van Buren "the seventh president." Nope. Van Buren was number eight.
PAGE 34: Here, Gerhardt says that, besides Jefferson, there were "eight other presidents who preceded" William Harrison. Nope. Besides Jefferson, there were seven other presidents prior to Harrison.
PAGE 38: Gerhardt claims there were "five nineteenth-century vice presidents who became president because of the incumbent's death." Wrong. There were only four: John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, and Chester Arthur. They became presidents upon the deaths of William Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, and James Garfield in 1841, 1850, 1865, and 1881, respectively.
PAGE 104: In the first paragraph on this page, Gerhardt claims that President Pierce took cabinet member Jefferson Davis on a trip to New York in 1843. The only problem is...there was no President Pierce in 1843. John Tyler was president that year. Pierce wasn't president at any time in the 1840s, in fact.
PAGE 127: In paragraph two, Gerhardt states that Grover Cleveland is "among the ten presidents who served for more than a term." Um...let's just count right now: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland, McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Bush-43, Obama. Yeah...that's more than ten. And if we want to get really picky, Cleveland is not one of the presidents who served more than one term - he was a president twice (#22 and 24), and each time it was just a term. So it would be better to say he is among the men, or persons, who served more than a term.
PAGE 141: It stands to reason that if you're wrong about how many men served as presdient for longer than a term, you're also gonna be wrong about how many served for a term or less. The funny thing is, though, that since 43 men served as president, you would think that Gerhardt would here claim that 33 served for a term or less (since he said 10 served for more than a term, and 43-10=33). But no. In the first paragraph on this page, he says Benjamin Harrison "was one of fifteen men who served for one term or less." Again, let's count: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, William Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, Taft, Harding, Hoover, Kennedy, Ford, Carter, Bush-41. Yeah...that's more than 15.
PAGE 155: In the second sentence on this page, Gerhardt claims that, besides Cleveland, "sixteen other presidents" have served more than a single term. See my comments, above, for page 127. Again, he's wrong. There haven't been 17, and there haven't been ten. There's been 21.
PAGE 167: This one confused me. Here's the sentence in question: "Hill and Cleveland had long been political foes: Hill had led the anti-Cleveland factions within New York, and as governor of New York, he had made sure that Cleveland lost New York in his 1884 reelection bid."
...So, I'm not sure what's going here. Who is governor of New York? Hill or Cleveland? It's not clear. Both men served as governor; Cleveland was governor in 1884. Was Cleveland running for reelection as governor in 1884? I don't know. But I do know that he was running for president that year. But he was only running for election - not reelection. And he carried New York in the electoral college, so Hill certainly hadn't "made sure" Cleveland "lost New York."
PAGE 171: So here's a mistake I wasn't aware of immediately, but only upon checking the endnotes (which, frustratingly, begin renumbering for each chapter). In paragraph two, it states that William Taft was "one of only six presidents handpicked by their predecessors." Huh. That's interesting. I wonder who those six were? So, I checked the endnote, where it reads: "The other four presidents are Madison, Monroe, Van Buren, and George H. W. Bush." Again, the editor is asleep at the wheel here.
PAGE 191: Paragraph three claims that "Coolidge served longer" than the other six Republican presidents from McKinley through Hoover. No, he did not. Coolidge served as president from 1923-1929, for just over 5 and a half years. Teddy Roosevelt, meanwhile, served for 7 and a half years - considerably longer than Coolidge. And, yes, Roosevelt was a Republican president between McKinley and Hoover.
PAGE 214: Here, the book cites a speech President Coolidge delivered in August 1924, and says "for a lame duck, the shift in his tone and position were striking." See my comment above - Coolidge was not a lame duck president at the time of this speech; he was not a lame duck until more than four years later, beginning in late 1928 (after Hoover won the election).
...And that's all I caught.
As a note to Gerhardt, if you're reading this: I greatly enjoyed your book and I thank you for writing it. Please be sure to get a better editor next time, though. I hereby offer to spot-check your next book on the Presidents, free of charge, if you'd like. Let me know.
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
So you couldn't find that 800 page biography of Franklin Pierce that you were looking for ?
By EWebb
If so then this is the book for you.
All kidding aside this covers history's 13 most ignored presidents. It shows how most of them actually did something meaningful and gives the reader some basic trivia and facts that they may not have been aware of.
This is interesting reading. The author sets a good pace and makes some of the presidents who we may have known in name only come alive. Just enough here on each one to stay interesting, give you the facts and move on.
I would have liked to see more background on some of the history going on at the times these presidents were serving as usually less studied presidents serve during less studied historical eras.
Overall interesting and good background for those of us who will never get as in depth on Millard Fillmore as we would like.
16 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
This book is a must-read for anyone who is a student of American history and American Presidents.
By E Schwartz
This book is a must-read for anyone who is a student of American history and American Presidents. Unlike many other historical authors, Gerhardt explains the importance of historical figures, party politics and events in the context of the entire arc of American history. These explanations gave me a sense of the enduring importance of these figures and parties (like the Whigs) in a way I had not appreciated before reading it.
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