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Project President: Bad Hair and Botox on the Road to the White House

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This book is great read. The analysis is flawless and the book is filled with numerous facts and pieces of information that will delight the reader.

Ben Shapiro writes excellently on excellent subject matter. He has yet to produce a mediocre or sub par piece of printed literature.

Project President is an interesting take on a not so interesting subject. Don't be fooled by the latter, as Shapiro has fact-mined some really fascinating items and put them together in a delightfully entertaining and educational book.

Recommended for any politico or anyone with even the slightest of historical interest. You don't need to be a politics junkie to enjoy Bens work in general and this book is no exception.

Tall men have a much better chance of becoming president, especially when running against a shorter man! Military service used to be an important aspect of a candidates qualifications; not so anymore.
This is a light, entertaining look at why our past presidents won their elections. It brings political history alive.

I bought this book on a whim at the airport, and I gotta say that I was pleasantly surprised. It's a fun overview of our presidents from a unique perspective.

Very interesting at some points. While it isn't right leaning all the way-- it feels like a conservatively biased book. Afterall, if Ann Coulter and America's favorite magic-underwear-wearer: Glenn Beck like it so much... well...

While any author can point out the humor in America's penchant for choosing unintelligent flag-waving meatheads over smarter opponents, this author seems to condone the practice. And yet, most of these voters-- with whom he appears to agree with-- would never read anything but a Chilton guide... let alone this book. So who is his audience? Rich people that hope poor people keep voting in their financial favor. How cynical.

All opinions aside, I noticed these factual mistakes by the author:

* He wrote that Jimmy Carter was the former Governor of Alabama. Wrong. Anyone knows it was Georgia.

* He writes that James Madison is 5'6" (did he get him mixed up with Ben Harrison?). Anyone that knows the height of our shortest president knows Madison was 5'4".

* He wrote that only four real Military Heroes were elected in the 20th Century: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and GHW Bush. What about Teddy Roosevelt? He was elected in his own right in 1904. Colonel Roosevelt was a "war hero" in the Spanish American war.

* The author wrote that-- if Jackson had not won the battle of New Orleans, the United States would have been in great trouble. Well we all know that the battle was technically fought AFTER the Treaty of Ghent was signed the month before (word just hadn't reached either side yet). So-- while an impressive battle was fought, it didn't matter what happened. The treaty was done.

* He claims a "rule" that "tall-with-hair beats short-and-bald" utilizing Jefferson and Jackson beating John Adams and John Q Adams respectively in 1800 and 1828 as evidence. But he fails to mention that both Adamses beat those same two men the first time around in 1796 and 1824; negating that "rule".

The author sometimes appears, in gathering his research, as though he has simply asked people on the street about these Presidents.