"Is there, to begin with, a scholarly consensus on who America's worst chief executives are? If there were a negative Mount Rushmore, which presidents would have their faces carved into it? What qualities seem to distinguish poor presidencies? And finally, do rankings really help us understand presidential leadership and individual presidencies, or do they, in the words of Princeton University political scientist Fred Greenstein, 'divert attention from the full range of presidential experience'?"
U.S. News & World Report averages surveys from various historians and presents a list of the worst American presidents.
And in The Washington Post historians Eric Foner, David Greenberg, Douglas Brinkley, Michael Lind, and Vincent J. Cannato add their assessments. (Via Ghost in the Machine.)
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