Front cover image for John Tyler, champion of the Old South

John Tyler, champion of the Old South

Print Book, English, 1964 [©1939]
Russell & Russell, New York, 1964 [©1939]
collective biographies
xv, 496 pages portrait 23 cm
424864
A Republican judge
Home, school and office
A young Solon
The death warrant of slavery
Governor of Virginia
The fasces exchanged for the toga
Lawmaking in state and nation
An independent Democrat
Nullification and the compromise of 1833
The high cost of consistency
Strange bedfellows
Rejected and honored by the Whigs
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too"
Prominence without power
An ill-matched team
Political ostracism
Perfidy or patriotism
Cabinet changes
Tariff and distribution
Successful diplomacy
A president without a party
Tyler and Texas
Politics and patronage
Sorrow and romance at the White House
"Sherwood Forest"
Efforts at peacemaking
"The old order changeth."