William Henry Harrison John Tyler And James Knox Polk Classic Reprint

Author : William O. Stoddard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331341093
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Henry Harrison, John Tyler and James Knox Polk (Classic Reprint) written by William O. Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from William Henry Harrison, John Tyler and James Knox Polk In the notable year 1774 the Virginia House of Burgesses took upon itself the character of a State Convention and elected seven delegates to the Continental Congress. This body of patriotic legislators was to meet in Philadelphia, and was to do a great deal more and better work than anybody dreamed of beforehand. Thomas Jefferson knew all the Virginia delegates, and said of them that they had been selected remarkably well. They were representative men, he said, and not one of them was a more perfect representative of the people than was big, burly, bluff Ben Harrison. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : WILLIAM O. STODDARD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033421475
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, JOHN TYLER AND JAMES KNOX POLK written by WILLIAM O. STODDARD and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dee Lillegard
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516013930
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Tyler written by Dee Lillegard and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1987 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Virginian who became tenth president of the United States upon the death of William Henry Harrison.

Author : Gary May
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429939214
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Tyler written by Gary May and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first "accidental president," whose secret maneuverings brought Texas into the Union and set secession in motion When William Henry Harrison died in April 1841, just one month after his inauguration, Vice President John Tyler assumed the presidency. It was a controversial move by this Southern gentleman, who had been placed on the fractious Whig ticket with the hero of Tippecanoe in order to sweep Andrew Jackson's Democrats, and their imperial tendencies, out of the White House. Soon Tyler was beset by the Whigs' competing factions. He vetoed the charter for a new Bank of the United States, which he deemed unconstitutional, and was expelled from his own party. In foreign policy, as well, Tyler marched to his own drummer. He engaged secret agents to help resolve a border dispute with Britain and negotiated the annexation of Texas without the Senate's approval. The resulting sectional divisions roiled the country. Gary May, a historian known for his dramatic accounts of secret government, sheds new light on Tyler's controversial presidency, which saw him set aside his dedication to the Constitution to gain his two great ambitions: Texas and a place in history.

Author : Edward P. Crapol
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807882720
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Tyler, the Accidental President written by Edward P. Crapol and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of the tenth president, Edward P. Crapol challenges depictions of Tyler as a die-hard advocate of states' rights, limited government, and a strict interpretation of the Constitution. Instead, he argues, Tyler manipulated the Constitution to increase the executive power of the presidency. Crapol also highlights Tyler's faith in America's national destiny and his belief that boundless territorial expansion would preserve the Union as a slaveholding republic. When Tyler sided with the Confederacy in 1861, he was branded as America's "traitor" president for having betrayed the republic he once led.

Author : Saskia Lacey
Publisher : Jurassic Classics
ISBN 13 : 1633221091
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jurassic Classics: The Presidential Masters of Prehistory written by Saskia Lacey and published by Jurassic Classics. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover America's prehistoric forefathers.

Author : Derrick Niederman
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402723605
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Classic Brain Twisters written by Derrick Niederman and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To solve these tantalizing teasers, you'll need to think carefully and logically. No special knowledge is required ... just common sense.

Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : WW Norton
ISBN 13 : 0789260689
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Full Faith and Credit: The National Debt, Taxes, Spending, and the Bankrupting of America written by Alan Axelrod and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the national debt? Who loses from it? Who profits from it? Why is it a greater threat to America than international terrorism? In direct, non-partisan language, this book follows the money and finds the answers. Conservative, Liberal, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Socialist . . . Each has a laundry list for America on which the slow-motion cataclysm of unsustainable national debt is but a lonely bullet point among dozens of others. Full Faith and Credit zooms in on that point, liberates it from partisan programs and political orientations, expands it, explores it, and explains it. The book examines key dimensions of our national life—from a military-industrial complex more menacing than even Eisenhower could have imagined to a Tower of Babel tax code that covertly translates taxes into secret subsidies. With the aim of converting bystanders into informed advocates of change, Full Faith and Credit is rich with eye-opening data, surprising case studies, and you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up examples: • For every official the United States public has elected, its government supports 5000 unelected employees. • $1 billion is the cost to destroy $16 billion in ammunition unneeded by the U.S. military. • $20,973,890,000 is the total taxpayer cost to the Treasury of gambling losses deducted by millionaires. With easy-to-follow graphs and charts, as well as 20 uproarious full-color editorial cartoons drawn from the prior work of Pulitzer Prize–winning artist Michael Ramirez, Full Faith and Credit locates the tipping point of the $19.4 trillion (and counting) national debt crisis and offers ideas on how to fix it.

Author : Martin Van Buren
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434450589
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Messages and Papers of the Presidents written by Martin Van Buren and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 5 in the collected messages and papers of the Presidents, as prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, of the House and Senate.

Author : George C. Herring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199723435
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Colony to Superpower written by George C. Herring and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned for the series. Here George C. Herring uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from thirteen disparate colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast to the world's greatest superpower. A sweeping account of United States' foreign relations and diplomacy, this magisterial volume documents America's interaction with other peoples and nations of the world. Herring tells a story of stunning successes and sometimes tragic failures, captured in a fast-paced narrative that illuminates the central importance of foreign relations to the existence and survival of the nation, and highlights its ongoing impact on the lives of ordinary citizens. He shows how policymakers defined American interests broadly to include territorial expansion, access to growing markets, and the spread of an "American way" of life. And Herring does all this in a story rich in human drama and filled with epic events. Statesmen such as Benjamin Franklin and Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman and Dean Acheson played key roles in America's rise to world power. But America's expansion as a nation also owes much to the adventurers and explorers, the sea captains, merchants and captains of industry, the missionaries and diplomats, who discovered or charted new lands, developed new avenues of commerce, and established and defended the nation's interests in foreign lands. From the American Revolution to the fifty-year struggle with communism and conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, From Colony to Superpower tells the dramatic story of America's emergence as superpower--its birth in revolution, its troubled present, and its uncertain future.