It's kinda infuriating how little attention some of the

I'm interested in all of them.
Reading about obscure presidents is always more interesting. Chapters about Lincoln and such are always the longest, most generic and boring.

Of course presidents commonly seen as the greatest usually weren't that good so that makes finding a good book about them even harder.

>>3315348
Also Taylor wasn't the best and had he lived longer the Civil War would've broken out earlier (after his incominc veto on the Compromise of 1850) but he had a sound economicl policy despite favoring high tarrifs.

>>3315339
>Chapters about Lincoln and such are always the longest, most generic and boring.

Speaking of Taylor and Lincoln:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22681/22681-h/22681-h.htm

Lincoln, man who will go on to die during his presidency, gives a eulogy to a man who dies during his presidency.

pottery

>>3315388
>>3315348
quoted wrong person

>>3315339
Character matters very little in those rankings, otherwise Garfield and Hoover would be among the best. There's really no point in speculating about how great of a president Taylor could have been. He was just a president who didn't get to accomplish much, so he's often ranked near the bottom for the same reason William Henry Harrison and Garfield are.

>>3315388
Lincoln's first party. The Whigs. Now this is a party with probably the worst luck in American history.