Learn what the executive branch was, is, and still could be.

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Happy President’s Day!
Every February, Americans celebrate the birth of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and other Presidents. In the many years that have passed since Washington voluntarily left office, much has changed ... not all for the better.

What, exactly, has happened to the executive office in the years since Washington and Lincoln? Who have been the best and worst U.S. presidents? What does being the President mean today—and what should it mean?

Senior Fellow and Director of our Center on Peace and Liberty Ivan Eland ([link removed]) explores these questions in three books published by the Independent Institute. A scholar of the presidency and acclaimed expert on foreign affairs, Eland sheds light on the evolution of the highest office in the land. This President’s Day, we invite you to learn about American history, the importance of liberty, and the true meaning of the presidency.
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Recarving Rushmore
Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty
Historians and scholars have long tended to give higher rankings to presidents who served during wartime, were well-spoken, or expanded the power of the executive office. However, Ivan Eland’s examination cuts through these longstanding biases and political rhetoric to offer a new nonpartisan system of ranking that is based purely on how well each president’s policies adhered to the founders’ original intention of limiting federal power in all its aspects.
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War and the Rogue Presidency
Restoring the Republic After Congressional Failure
The Office of the President isn’t what it used to be—it has morphed into an overgrown beast. So says presidential scholar Ivan Eland in this landmark book. The presidency no longer simply enforces the laws passed by Congress. Its vast bureaucracy is flush with cash and wields powers never authorized by the Framers.
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Eleven Presidents
Promises vs. Results in Achieving Limited Government
To understand the presidency today we have to learn from the past. Ivan Eland offers a new perspective in Eleven Presidents on the evolution of the executive office by assessing the policies of eleven key presidents who held office over the last one hundred years: Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.
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