Edition |
Fourth edition. |
Description |
vi, 554 pages : portraits ; 25 cm. |
Series |
Facts on File library of American history |
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Facts on File library of American history.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson -- Aaron Burr -- George Clinton -- Elbridge Gerry -- Daniel D. Tompkins -- John Caldwell Calhoun -- Martin Van Buren -- Richard Mentor Johnson -- John Tyler -- George Mifflin Dallas -- Millard Fillmore -- William Rufus de Vane King -- John Cabell Breckinridge -- Hannibal Hamlin -- Andrew Johnson -- Schuyler Colfax -- Henry Wilson -- William A. Wheeler -- Chester Alan Arthur -- Thomas Andrews Hendricks -- Levi Parsons Morton -- Adlai Ewing Stevenson -- Garret Augustus Hobart -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Charles Warren Fairbanks -- James Schoolcraft Sherman -- Thomas Riley Marshall -- Calvin Coolidge -- Charles Gates Dawes -- Charles Curtis -- John Nance Garner -- Henry Agard Wallace -- Harry S. Truman -- Alben W. Barkley -- Richard Milhous Nixon -- Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr. -- Spiro Theodore Agnew -- Gerald Rudolph Ford -- Nelson A. Rockefeller -- Walter F. Mondale -- George Herbert Walker Bush -- J. Danforth Quayle -- Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. -- Richard Bruce Cheney -- Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. |
Summary |
The majority of our vice presidents have been people of extraordinarily high aspiration, ability and achievement. For some, the vice presidency was the deflating end of a political career; for others, the office was a stepping-stone to the presidency. |
Subject |
Vice-presidents -- United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Added Author |
Purcell, L. Edward.
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ISBN |
9780816077076 hardcover alkaline paper |
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081607707X hardcover alkaline paper |
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