President without a Party
The Life of John Tyler
by Christopher J. Leahy
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Historians and the American public have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation?s least effective heads of state. In President without a Party the first fullscale biography in more than fifty years and the first new academic study of him in eight decades Christopher J. Leahy explores the life of the tenth chief executive of the Unite...
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