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Martin Van Buren

Author : Edward L. Widmer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805069224
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Martin Van Buren written by Edward L. Widmer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-01-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of no-holds-barred democracy The first "professional politician" to become president, the slick and dandyish Martin Van Buren was to all appearances the opposite of his predecessor, the rugged general and Democratic champion Andrew Jackson. Van Buren, a native Dutch speaker, was America's first ethnic president as well as the first New Yorker to hold the office, at a time when Manhattan was bursting with new arrivals. A sharp and adroit political operator, he established himself as a powerhouse in New York, becoming a U.S. senator, secretary of state, and vice president under Jackson, whose election he managed. His ascendancy to the Oval Office was virtually a foregone conclusion. Once he had the reins of power, however, Van Buren found the road quite a bit rougher. His attempts to find a middle ground on the most pressing issues of his day-such as the growing regional conflict over slavery-eroded his effectiveness. But it was his inability to prevent the great banking panic of 1837, and the ensuing depression, that all but ensured his fall from grace and made him the third president to be denied a second term. His many years of outfoxing his opponents finally caught up with him. Ted Widmer, a veteran of the Clinton White House, vividly brings to life the chaos and contention that plagued Van Buren's presidency-and ultimately offered an early lesson in the power of democracy.

Martin Van Buren

Author : James M Bradley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190920521
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Martin Van Buren written by James M Bradley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-02 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new biography of the 8th president of the United States, the first chief executive not born a British citizen and the first to use the party system to chart his way from tavern-keeper's son to the pinnacle of power. Martin Van Buren was one of the most remarkable politicians not only of his time but in American presidential history. The principal architect of the party system and one of the founders of the Democratic Party, he came to dominate New York-then the most influential state in the Union-and was instrumental in electing Andrew Jackson president. Van Buren's skills as a political strategist were unparalleled (he was known as the "Little Magician"), winning him a series of high-profile offices: US senator, New York's governor, US secretary of state, US vice president, and finally the White House. In his rise to power, Van Buren sought consensus and conciliation, bending to the wishes of slave interests and complicit in the dispossession of America's Indigenous population--two of the darkest chapters in American history. This new biography of Van Buren -- the first full-scale portrait in four decades -- charts his ascent from a tavern in the Hudson Valley to the presidency, concluding with his late-career involvement in an antislavery movement. Offering vivid profiles of the day's leading figures (Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, DeWitt Clinton, James K. Polk), James Bradley's book depicts the struggle for power in the tumultuous decades leading up to the Civil War.

Martin Van Buren

Author : BreAnn Rumsch
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1617851310
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Martin Van Buren written by BreAnn Rumsch and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States president preserves, protects, and defends the U.S. Constitution. Each president's term influences events in America and around the world for years to come. This biography introduces young readers to the life of Martin Van Buren beginning with his childhood in Kinderhook, New York. Information about Van Buren's early career as a lawyer is discussed. In addition, his family and personal life, as well as his retirement years at Lindenwald is highlighted. Easy-to-read text details Van Buren's political career as a New York state senator, member of the Albany Regency, U.S. senator, where he served as chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, governor of New York, and secretary of state and member of the Kitchen Cabinet under President Andrew Jackson. Finally, students will explore key events from Democratic president Van Buren's administration, including the Trail of Tears, the Second Seminole War, and passage of the Independent Treasury Act. Beautiful graphics showcase the primary source documents and photographs. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars help put essential information at students' fingertips. In addition, a quick-reference chart provides easy access to facts about every U.S. president. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Martin van Buren and the American Political System

Author : Donald B. Cole
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400853613
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Martin van Buren and the American Political System written by Donald B. Cole and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Cole analyzes the political skills that brought Van Buren the nickname Little Magician," describing how he built the Albany Regency (which became a model for political party machines) and how he created the Democratic party of Andrew Jackson. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Life and Times of Martin Van Buren

Author : William Lyon Mackenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Martin Van Buren written by William Lyon Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Martin Van Buren

Author : Caroline Evensen Lazo
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822513940
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Martin Van Buren written by Caroline Evensen Lazo and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and career of the eight president, who led the United States through its first economic depression.

Democracy's Lawyer

Author : John Roderick Heller
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807137421
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Democracy's Lawyer written by John Roderick Heller and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy (1775--1840) epitomized the "American democrat" who so famously fascinated Alexis de Tocqueville. Born and reared on the isolated frontier, Grundy rose largely by his own ability to become the Old Southwest's greatest criminal lawyer and one of the first radical political reformers in the fledgling United States. In Democracy's Lawyer, the first comprehensive biography of Grundy since 1940, J. Roderick Heller reveals how Grundy's life typifies the archetypal, post--founding fathers generation that forged America's culture and institutions. After his birth in Virginia, Grundy moved west at age five to the region that would become Kentucky, where he lost three brothers in Indian wars. He earned a law degree, joined the legislature, and quickly became Henry Clay's main rival. At age thirty-one, after rising to become chief justice of Kentucky, Grundy moved to Tennessee, where voters soon elected him to Congress. In Washington, Grundy proved so voracious a proponent of the War of 1812 that a popular slogan of the day blamed the war on "Madison, Grundy, and the Devil." A pivotal U.S. senator during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, Grundy also served as Martin Van Buren's attorney general and developed a close association with his law student and political protégé James K. Polk. Grundy championed the ideals of the American West, and as Heller demonstrates, his dominating belief -- equality in access to power -- motivated many of his political battles. Aristocratic federalism threatened the principles of the Revolution, Grundy asserted, and he opposed fetters on freedom of opportunity, whether from government or entrenched economic elites. Although widely known as a politician, Grundy achieved even greater fame as a criminal lawyer. Of the purported 185 murder defendants that he represented, only one was hanged. At a time when criminal trials served as popular entertainment, Grundy's mere appearance in a courtroom drew spectators from miles around, and his legal reputation soon spread nationwide. One nineteenth-century Nashvillian declared that Grundy "could stand on a street corner and talk the cobblestones into life." Shifting seamlessly within the worlds of law, entrepreneurship, and politics, Felix Grundy exemplified the questing, mobile society of early nineteenth-century America. With Democracy's Lawyer, Heller firmly establishes Grundy as a powerful player and personality in early American law and politics.

American Statesmen: Martin Van Buren

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Martin Van Buren

Author : Edward Morse Shepard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Martin Van Buren written by Edward Morse Shepard and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Statesmen: Martin VanBuren

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book American Statesmen: Martin VanBuren written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Invention of Party Politics

Author : Gerald Leonard
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807827444
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Party Politics written by Gerald Leonard and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reexamination of party history and a detailed exposition of party politics in Illinois argues that constitutional issues, not economic or social affiliations, were key to early party development.

Constitutionalism in the Approach and Aftermath of the Civil War

Author : Paul D. Moreno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823291250
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Constitutionalism in the Approach and Aftermath of the Civil War written by Paul D. Moreno and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The irreducibly constitutional nature of the Civil War's prelude and legacy is the focus of this absorbing collection of nine essays by a diversity of political theorists and historians. The contributors examine key constitutional developments leading up to the war, the crucial role of Abraham Lincoln's statesmanship, and how the constitutional aspects of the war and Reconstruction endured in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This thoughtful, informative volume covers a wide range of topics: from George Washington's conception of the Union and his fears for its future to Martin Van Buren's state-centered, anti-secessionist federalism; from Lincoln's approach to citizenship for African Americans to Woodrow Wilson's attempt to appropriate Lincoln for the goals of Progressivism. Each essay zeroes in on the constitutional causes or consequences of the war and emphasizes how constitutional principles shape political activity. Accordingly, important figures, disputes, and judicial decisions are placed within the broader context of the constitutional system to explain how ideas and institutions, independently and in dialogue with the courts, have oriented political action and shaped events over time.

The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren

Author : John Clement Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781376558777
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren written by John Clement Fitzpatrick and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

True Stories of Our Presidents

Author : Charles Morris
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519480279
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book True Stories of Our Presidents written by Charles Morris and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Stories of Our Presidents is a collection of short histories of our presidents, written for a high school audience.

American Statesmen: Martin Van Buren

Author : John Torrey Morse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book American Statesmen: Martin Van Buren written by John Torrey Morse and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Martin Van Buren

Author : William Allen Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Martin Van Buren written by William Allen Butler and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Presidents' War

Author : Chris DeRose
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493010875
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Presidents' War written by Chris DeRose and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, readers will experience America’s gravest crisis through the eyes of the five former presidents who lived it. Author and historian Chris DeRose chronicles history’s most epic Presidential Royal Rumble, which culminated in a multi-front effort against Lincoln’s reelection bid, but not before: * John Tyler engaged in shuttle diplomacy between President Buchanan and the new Confederate Government. He chaired the Peace Convention of 1861, the last great hope for a political resolution to the crisis. When it failed, Tyler joined the Virginia Secession Convention, voted to leave the Union, and won election to the Confederate Congress. * Van Buren, who had schemed to deny Lincoln the presidency, supported him in his efforts after Fort Sumter, and thwarted Franklin Pierce's attempt at a meeting of the ex-Presidents to undermine Lincoln. * Millard Fillmore hosted Lincoln and Mary Todd on their way to Washington, initially supported the war effort, offered critical advice to keep Britain at bay, but turned on Lincoln over emancipation. * Franklin Pierce, talked about as a Democratic candidate in 1860 and ’64, was openly hostile to Lincoln and supportive of the South, an outspoken critic of Lincoln especially on civil liberties. After Vicksburg, when Jefferson Davis’s home was raided, a secret correspondence between Pierce and the Confederate President was revealed. * James Buchanan, who had left office as seven states had broken away from the Union, engaged in a frantic attempt to vindicate his administration, in part by tying himself to Lincoln and supporting the war, arguing that his successor had simply followed his policies. How Abraham Lincoln battled against his predecessors to preserve the Union and later to put an end to slavery is a thrilling tale of war waged at the top level of power.