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The classic account of the social origins of our presidents is The Log Cabin Myth, by Edward Pessen, who decided that only six presidents could claim to have been born in one, or its equivalent: Fillmore, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Garfield, Nixon, Reagan. Pessen wrote before the rise of Bill Clinton: Would he have ranked him as the boy from Hope, or the stepson of the Buick dealer in Hot Springs? There is no question where the Clintons rank now; their tax returns show that they have made $109 million since 2001. Their books (two ...