Synopses & Reviews
JULES WITCOVER is a syndicated political columnist who has worked for the Baltimore Sun, Washington Post and Star and the Los Angeles Times. He is author of fourteen books on American politics and history and co-author of five others. They include biographies of vice presidents Spiro Agnew and Joe Biden, a history of the Democratic Party, and accounts of five presidential campaigns.
Synopsis
JULES WITCOVER is an acclaimed political journalist and columnist who has worked for The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post, and The Washington Star. Witcover has written numerous books, including Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption and Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Nixon & Agnew.
About the Author
Introduction
1. John Adams of Massachusetts
2. Thomas Jefferson of Virginia
3. Aaron Burr of New York
4. George Clinton of New York
5. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts
6. Daniel D. Tompkins of New York
7. John C. Calhoun of South Carolina
8. Martin Van Buren of New York
9. Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky
10. John Tyler of Virginia
11. George M. Dallas of Pennsylvania
12. Millard Fillmore of New York
13. William R. King of Alabama
14. John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky
15. Hannibal Hamlin of Maine
16. Andrew Johnson of Tennessee
17. Schuyler Colfax of Indiana
18. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts
19. William A. Wheeler of New York
20. Chester A. Arthur of New York
21. Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana
22. Levi P. Morton of New York
23. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois
24. Garret A. Hobart of New Jersey
25. Theodore Roosevelt of New York
26. Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana
27. James S. Sherman of New York
28. Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana
29. Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts
30. Charles G. Dawes of Illinois
31. Charles Curtis of Kansas
32. John Nance Garner of Texas
33. Henry A. Wallace of Iowa
34. Harry S. Truman of Missouri
35. Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky
36. Richard M. Nixon of California
37. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas
38. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota
39. Spiro T. Agnew of Maryland
40. Gerald R. Ford Jr. of Michigan
41. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York
42. Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota
43. George H. W. Bush of Texas
44. J. Danforth Quayle of Indiana
45. Albert A. Gore Jr. of Tennessee
46. Richard B. Cheney of Wyoming
47. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware
48. The Evolving Assistant Presidency
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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