The American vice presidency : from irrelevance to power /
Jules Witcover.
Bok Engelsk 2014 Jules. Witcover,· Electronic books
| Omfang | 1 online resource (xv, 575 pages ) : illustrations ;
|
|---|---|
| Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - John Adams of Massachusetts -- Thomas Jefferson of Virginia -- Aaron Burr of New York -- George Clinton of New York -- Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts -- Daniel D. Tompkins of New York -- John C. Calhoun of South Carolina -- Martin Van Buren of New York -- Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky -- John Tyler of Virginia -- George M. Dallas of Pennsylvania -- Millard Fillmore of New York -- William R. King of Alabama -- John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky -- Hannibal Hamlin of Maine -- Andrew Johnson of Tennessee -- Schuyler Colfax of Indiana -- Henry Wilson of Massachusetts -- William A. Wheeler of New York -- Chester A. Arthur of New York -- Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana -- Levi P. Morton of New York -- Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois -- Garret A. Hobart of New Jersey -- Theodore Roosevelt of New York -- Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana -- James S. Sherman of New York -- Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana -- Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts -- Charles G. Dawes of Illinois -- Charles Curtis of Kansas -- John Nance Garner of Texas -- Henry A. Wallace of Iowa -- Harry S. Truman of Missouri -- Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky -- Richard M. Nixon of California -- Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas -- Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota -- Spiro T. Agnew of Maryland -- Gerald R. Ford Jr. of Michigan -- Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York -- Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota -- George H. W. Bush of Texas -- J. Danforth Quayle of Indiana -- Albert A. Gore Jr. of Tennessee -- Richard B. Cheney of Wyoming -- Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware -- The evolving assistant presidency.. - An all-inclusive examination of the vice presidency over the course of American history. Witcover chronicles each of the forty-seven vice presidents during their tenures, and explores how the roles and responsibilities were first subject to the whims of the presidents under whom they served, but came to be expanded to a de facto assistant presidency.
|
| Emner | |
| Sjanger | |
| Geografisk emneord | United States - Politics and government. . - United States. : (OCoLC)fst01204155
|
| Dewey | |
| ISBN | 1-58834-472-X
|
