Historians are not generally considered playful sorts. But they seem to enjoy one diversion ? ranking the presidents. Ever since Arthur Schlesinger Sr. began this pastime in 1948 in a poll published in Life magazine, numerous such rankings have been issued. In ?Where They Stand,? Robert W. Merry, a longtime Washington journalist and biographer of one of our less-prominent chief executives, James K. Polk, examines seven such surveys, beginning with Schlesinger?s, and what they tell us about how presidents succeed or fail.
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