Complicated John Tyler and his brief presidency.(BOOKS)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: March 11, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Michael P. Riccards, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

No American political slogan is more remembered than one from the 1840 presidential campaign "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too." Edward Crapol of the College of William and Mary has written "John Tyler: The Accidental President," a fascinating and comprehensive study of half that brief team.

Tyler of Virginia ran on a Whig ticket with an old war hero, but he was by background and inclination a Jeffersonian, limited-government, states-rights Democrat. This study shows that after he assumed the presidency (upon ...

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