Presimetrics: What the Facts Tell Us About How the Presidents Measure Up On the Issues We Care About
A Politics, Nonfiction book. Very interesting but not especially readable. And its tongue-in-cheek writing style quickly went out of control and its uneven use...
The authors cut through party bias to present the quantifiable facts about how modern presidents have performed on critical national issuesPoliticians and the media spend a lot of time telling Americans how the presidents and their administrations are performing, but this analysis always skews along party lines. In Presimetrics, Kimel and Kanell take a fresh look at modern politics by gathering data from numerous government sources in order to compare and rank presidential performance on critical issues, from employment and health care to taxes and family values. The results frequently defy expectations: • Reagan, godfather of neoconservatives, increased the federal workforce more than any president...
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Very interesting but not especially readable. And its tongue-in-cheek writing style quickly went out of control and its uneven use definitely showed implied prejudices. That said, I'd love to see the update when enough time has past to see Obama's numbers. I found this book to be fascinating in the way the author's compiled and presented data from presidents Ike through GW. Some facts to wet your appetite: Ronald Reagan increased the percentage of civilians working for the federal government by a larger percentage than any other president since 1960.Bill Clinton kept the cost of health... An interesting look at the "numbers" for Presidents from Eisenhower to G.W. Bush. The numbers are of course a correlation, not necessarily a cause and effect, but they are surprising.
