Large numbers of the poor see him as the first modern president who has really tried to improve their lives.
The book may have turned out to be one of the more influential works ever read by a modern president.
But it showed, in reality, how dominant is the power of the modern President.
Dismissal is a legal right a modern president can't exercise.
That's a record for a modern President at this point in his term.
Not that all modern Presidents have been heroes, of course.
He is also attached to the only modern president who has ever been impeached.
But what does he think of the other modern American Presidents?
Security concerns make it inevitable that a modern American president will be somewhat cut off from the country he leads.
He could be the most unapologetically religious of Mexico's modern presidents.