The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950sNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A page turner masterpiece. Jim Lehrer In a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind the perennial top four: Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt. Historian William Hitchcock shows that this high ranking is justified. Eisenhowers accomplishments were enormous, and loom ever larger from the vantage point of our own tumultuous times.