Here is an excellent and detailed review of my new book, Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster, which is out this week, and which you can order here now. “Rating America’s Presidents,” review by Loren Rosson, August 6, 2020: There’s a new […]
Rating America’s Presidents: ‘A magnificent work; thorough, impressive, robust, not to mention eminently readable’
“A magnificent work; thorough, impressive, robust, not to mention eminently readable. Spencer has the brain the size of a small planet, and it shows. His groundbreaking analysis of our presidents is a must-read, and should be on the bookshelves of every home, classroom, and library.” — Nick Adams, author of Trump and Churchill: Defenders of […]
Fighting Back against the Left’s War on Our History
My latest in the American Thinker: If we’re going to make America great again, we have to know what made it great in the first place. That’s why the Left went into a frenzy of vandalism in tearing down statues earlier this summer, not just of Confederates but of those notable slaveowners Lincoln, Grant, and […]
The Difference Donald Trump Has Made
Donald Trump is so passionately loved — and fanatically hated — partly because he has changed the course of the United States, both domestically and internationally, for the first time since before World War II. Some believe that he has upset the world order that has prevented a third world war, and risks plunging the […]
How America got into this fix — and how we can get out
America’s problem for years now has been bipartisan. Four disastrous presidencies in a row — Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, and Obama — have left America weaker, more dangerous, and poorer than it had been and could have been. Find out exactly what these four presidents did wrong, and how the nation’s situation has now […]
We can’t make America great again without knowing what made it great in the first place
There have been at least 20 surveys of historians rating the Presidents of the United States from “Great” to “Failure,” since 1948. With some variations, they show a remarkable unanimity: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt usually place in the top tier, with Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding, […]
Dennis Prager: Rating America’s Presidents ‘an important ― and enjoyable ― book’
“One thing virtually every American can agree on is that every ranking of American presidents is a reflection of the values of the person or persons making those rankings. So, if you share the left-wing values of the vast majority of academics and journalists, you will certainly be pleased with how highly Woodrow Wilson and […]
“A cogent, clearly-explained standard for rating the presidents: ‘How good were they for America?’”
“Robert Spencer has applied a cogent, clearly-explained standard for rating the presidents: ‘How good were they for America?’ His rankings are consistent, fair, and in my view, appropriate (we might differ strongly about Old Hickory, whom I think was a long-term disaster for the United States, but that’s just me). No list that has anyone […]
Video: Robert Spencer on the Left’s War on History and Its Antidote
After some misadventures trying to set it up, I succeeded yesterday in hosting a livestream in which I discussed my forthcoming book, Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster, as well as a host of other issues prompted by questions from people who […]
David Horowitz: Robert Spencer’s ‘”Rating America’s Presidents” is itself a revolutionary act’
“When the dust settles on current political divisions, clear-eyed historians will see the occupant of the White House as an American revolutionary. Donald Trump’s revolution was to unapologetically restore a nation’s pride, resurrect its power, and unleash its engines of prosperity and opportunity. These achievements were made possible because Trump established a new standard for […]