This book analyzes all 44 U.S. presidents to date and every U.S. presidential debate ever held, from 1960 to 2016, in addition to 79 foreign leaders. Using facial coding as an analytical tool, and with results from the American Political Science Association's presidential greatness rankings, Gallup polls, and Freedom Houses's annual survey of countries' commitment to democracy as benchmarks, Two Cheers for Democracy takes seriously--in an unique way--the central question of today: what's the personality of the people leading us, and can we trust them to look out for the public good?.