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Author Tally, Steve.

Title Bland ambition : from Adams to Quayle-- the cranks, criminals, tax cheats, and golfers who made it to vice president / Steve Tally.

Publication Info. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1992]
©1992

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  973.923 TALLY    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  353.003 T149B    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xviii, 404 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
Contents John Adams, 1789-97 -- Thomas Jefferson, 1797-1801 -- Aaron Burr, 1801-05 -- Sidebar: The Coronation of Bland Ambition -- George Clinton, 1805-12 -- Elbridge Gerty, 1813-14 -- Daniel D. Tompkins, 1817-25 -- John Caldwell Calhoun, 1825-32 -- Martin Van Buren, 1833-37 -- Richard Mentor Johnson, 1837-41 -- John Tyler, 1841 -- Sidebar: "I'm in Control Here" -- George Mifflin Dallas, 1845-49 -- Millard Filmore, 1849-50 -- William Rufus de Vane King, 1853 -- John Cabell Breckinridge, 1857-61 -- Hannibal Hamlin, 1861-65 -- Sidebar: America's Other Vice President -- Andrew Johnson, 1865 -- Schuyler Colfax, 1869-73 -- Henry Wilson, 1873-75 -- William Almon Wheeler, 1877-81 -- Chester Alan Arthur, 1881 -- Thomas Andrews Hendricks, 1885 -- Levi Parsons Morton, 1889-93 -- Sidebar: Vice-Presidential Perquisites -- Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 1893-97 -- Garret Augustus Hobart, 1897-99 -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1901 -- Charles Warren Fairbanks, 1905-09 -- James Schoolcraft Sherman, 1909-12 -- Thomas Riley Marshall, 1913-21 -- Calvin Coolidge, 1921-23 -- Charles Gates Dawes, 1925-29 -- Charles Curtis, 1929-33 -- Sidebar: The Also-Rans -- John Nance Garner, 1933-41 -- Henry Agard Wallace, 1941-45 -- Harry S. Truman, 1945 -- Alben William Barkley, 1949-53 -- Richard Milhous Nixon, 1953-61 -- Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1961-63 -- Hubert Horatio Humphrey, 1965-69 -- Spiro Theodore Agnew, 1969-73 --
Subject Vice-presidents -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government.
ISBN 0156131404
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