Historians love ranking presidents. You’ve seen the lists. There are the Greats, the Near Greats, and the Mediocre.

Three weeks shy of 44, he was the youngest president till then. His future glittered. Then Fate stepped in. Early in the new ...

Challenges: Andrew Johnson had to navigate the reunification and reconstruction ... but not convicted or removed from office—Johnson often contends with James Buchanan for the title of worst president ...

James Buchanan is the only ... John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. 1832-1833 | After losing the position of attorney general, Buchanan was offered a post in Russia. He was one of the most ...

James Buchanan wrote "An Economic Theory of Clubs" and invented clubs to support a form of welfare economics in which there is no social welfare function (SWF) and individual utility functions cannot ...