For Fillmore, slavery was a moral wrong, and imposing on states’ rights was a legal wrong, but for U.S. history, the chimera of legislation that became the Compromise of 1850 was a catastrophic mistake.
An exhaustive survey of the Presidents of the United States and everything they did wrong while in office.
An exhaustive survey of the Presidents of the United States and everything they did wrong while in office.
President Buchanan amassed the largest fiscal imbalance of a pre-Civil War administration not engaging in a foreign war and that fact only scrathes the surface of his shortcomings.
Adams’ mistake was not, as some would have it, in angrily prosecuting his political enemies; it was, rather, in allowing others within his administration to pursue acts which went against his avowed political principles and instincts.
To discover everything wrong with the Gipper, we have to challenge myths from all sides.
Was Harry Truman one of the worst terrorists of all time? If words mean anything anymore—then absolutely, yes.
John Tyler was the one person most responsible for squashing republicanism and establishing the empire.
Even in the small space of just thirty days, William Henry Harrison still managed to do everything wrong.
We are launching an exciting new series of essays cataloging the long list of everything wrong with the Presidents.