John Tyler: A President of Many Firsts is a concise, lively, and well-illustrated biography of the tenth president of the United States. This book reviews many of the "firsts" associated with the life and presidency of John Tyler, and describes how the issues and conflicts of John Tyler's presidency affected the man and came to shape the identity of the new American nation.
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Jane C. Walker lives and writes in Midlothian, Virginia. She holds degrees in Elementary and Secondary Education (B.S., The University of Rhode Island) and Reading (M.A., University of Richmond). A former public school reading teacher, Ms. Walker believes that biographies can and should bring out the personalities of the individual honored and breathe life into history. John Tyler is Ms. Walker's second biography of an American president, a subject in which she has an intense interest because she is indirectly related to four of them: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard Filmore, and Ulysses Grant.
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An overpriced pamphlet,
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This expensive booklet of less than 70 pages (including many illustrations) is intended as a souvenir of Tyler's restored plantation house. (Incredibly, although Tyler was born in 1790, the restorer is a grandson, still alive at the time of publication in 2001.) The pamphlet, based completely on secondary sources, is deliberately uncritical and minimizes the more unsavory features of Tyler's presidency. The three-page sketch in American National Biography provides a far more accurate understanding of the tenth president and his administration.
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I was hoping for more family history with this book. I've been looking for years for Pres. Tyler's parents, his father's siblings and forward ancestry, in hopes to open a snag I have in my mom's Tyler line, as her ggrandfather was a first cousin to Pres. Tyler, as my grandfather and siblings often stated. Maybe this John and mom's ggranfathers were brothers or their fathers were connected. I just need a better lineage.
Thanks, Bonnie
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The catchy slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too" helped Tippecanoe's war hero, William Henry Harrison, win the United States presidential election in 1840. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, John Tyler, Sherwood Forest, White House, Henry Clay, New York, South Carolina, President Tyler, Charles City County, Daniel Webster, James River, Andrew Jackson, Fort Sumter, Judge Tyler, William Henry Harrison, Abraham Lincoln, Old Hickory, President Buchanan, Dred Scott, Sandwich Islands, South Carolinians, Southern Democrats, Supreme Court New!
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The catchy slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too" helped Tippecanoe's war hero, William Henry Harrison, win the United States presidential election in 1840. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, John Tyler, Sherwood Forest, White House, Henry Clay, New York, South Carolina, President Tyler, Charles City County, Daniel Webster, James River, Andrew Jackson, Fort Sumter, Judge Tyler, William Henry Harrison, Abraham Lincoln, Old Hickory, President Buchanan, Dred Scott, Sandwich Islands, South Carolinians, Southern Democrats, Supreme Court New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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