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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Leahy, Christopher J.
Titre(s) : President without a party [Texte imprimé] : the life of John Tyler / Christopher J. Leahy
Publication : Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, copyright [2020]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiii, 491 pages) : portraits ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Christopher Leahy's "President Without a Party" is the first full-scale academic
biography of President John Tyler since Oliver P. Chitwood's 1939 book, "John Tyler:
Champion of the Old South." Leahy's work is a much-needed update and corrective to
Chitwood's largely political and dated biography. That study and most of what has
been written about Tyler since then largely neglect Tyler's personal life and his
pre-presidential career. Also, until now, no author has satisfactorily explained the
dynamics of Tyler's fight with the Whig Party during his presidency. Leahy's biography
addresses all of those topics and is a much more complete account and explanation
for Tyler's life and career. Leahy examines Tyler's early life in the Virginia Tidewater
as the son of a Revolutionary politician. He details Tyler's career as an attorney
and politician, from his entry into the Virginia legislature in 1811, through his
stints as a congressman and senator, through his presidency (1841-1845), and finally
to his efforts at the failed peace conference of 1861 and the Virginia secession convention.
Leahy also analyzes Tyler's personal life, especially the relationships he shared
with his two wives and fifteen children. In the end, he suggests that politics fulfilled
Tyler most, often to the detriment of his family relationships. Besides filling in
these gaps, Leahy's biography makes an original contribution to the fields of politics,
family life, and slavery in the antebellum South. Moving beyond the simplistic explanation
that Tyler was a merely a stalwart defender of the Old South, as Oliver Chitwood argued
many years ago, Leahy offers a nuanced argument which demonstrates that Tyler was
not a rigid ideologue and that as president he favored a middle-of-the-road, bipartisan
approach to problems, an approach on his part that previous biographers and historians
have overlooked"
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Life of John Tyler
Sujet(s) : Tyler, John (1790-1862)
Politique et gouvernement -- États-Unis -- 1841-1845
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
973.5 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - 1809-1845
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780807172544. - ISBN 0807172545. - ISBN 9780807173558 (erroné). - ISBN 9780807173541
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46881911q
Notice n° :
FRBNF46881911
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
