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CLINTON WAS THE BEST
The Big Question: Anne McElvoy believes Bill Clinton established a fresh way of talking about politics... read more »
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT WAS THE BEST
The Big Question: Christopher Lockwood chooses the president with the neatest definition of a just society... read more »
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THE USES OF DIFFICULTY
The brain likes a challenge—and putting a few obstacles in its way may well boost its creativity. Ian Leslie takes a hard line... read more »
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JEFFERSON WAS THE BEST
The Big Question: partisan, ruthless, passionate—Jefferson, argues David Rennie, was an indispensable president... read more »
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LINCOLN WAS THE BEST
The Big Question: Jesse Norman argues that it was the modest and witty man who built a "team of rivals" who made the best president... read more »
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FDR WAS THE BEST
The Big Question: Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a mass of contradictions, reckons David Thomson, but he changed the landscape of American politics... read more »
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WASHINGTON WAS THE BEST
The Big Question: Emily Bobrow argues that George Washington, America's first president, had just enough impostor anxiety... read more »
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