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Sean Wilentz is the modern Arthur Schlesinger Jr.--an Ivy League historian who puts his brisk crossover prose at the service of the Democratic party, past and present. Rolling Stone asked him to assess "The Worst President in History?" "From time to time," Wilentz writes, "I kick back with my colleagues at Princeton to argue idly about which president really was the worst of them all." (This prose isn't crossing over so well; can anyone believe that the author of that sentence ever really kicks back?) The worst president, according to Wilentz, turns out to be the incumbent. He and the editors ...