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As of 2012, only 43 men have held the office of the President of the United States. Some have been sanctified and some reviled. This historical work addresses t

Historians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation’s least effective heads of state. In President without a Party—the first full-scale bi

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The first vice president to become president on the death of the incumbent, John Tyler (1790-1862) was derided by critics as "His Accidency." In this biography