Book Description
John Tyler: A President of Many Firsts is a concise, lively, and well-illustrated biography of the tenth president of the United States. This book reviews many of the "firsts" associated with the life and presidency of John Tyler, and describes how the issues and conflicts of John Tyler's presidency affected the man and came to shape the identity of the new American nation.
About the Author
Jane C. Walker lives and writes in Midlothian, Virginia. She holds degrees in Elementary and Secondary Education (B.S., The University of Rhode Island) and Reading (M.A., University of Richmond). A former public school reading teacher, Ms. Walker believes that biographies can and should bring out the personalities of the individual honored and breathe life into history. John Tyler is Ms. Walker's second biography of an American president, a subject in which she has an intense interest because she is indirectly related to four of them: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard Filmore, and Ulysses Grant.
John Tyler: President of Many Firsts FROM THE PUBLISHER
John Tyler is a biography of the gentleman politician from Tidewater Virginia and the tenth President of the United States. Although John Tyler is less well known than many presidents, his contributions to American political history were substantial and had lasting effects on the geography and foreign relations of the United States and the protocol for the ascent of the vice president to the presidency when a president dies in office.
SYNOPSIS
John Tyler is a concise, lively, and well-illustrated biography of the tenth president of the United States. Tyler was born in Charles City, Virginia, where he grew up on the family plantation. He was educated at he College of William and Mary, became a plantation farmer himself, practiced law, and went into politics. Tyler was the first American president to have been born after the American Revolution, and his development took place in the national and political context of a young country seeking to define and develop itself. State sovereignty, the national bank, western expansion, and slavery were important issues of the times. Tyler, a man of principle, placed the interests of the nation before those of his own political party at a time when national growth and maturation were playing out. The first trade agreement between the United States and China and a treaty for the annexation of Texas by the United States were among Tylerﾽs bold and important accomplishments. This book reviews many of the ﾽfirstsﾽ associated with the life and presidency of John Tyler, and describes how the issues and conflicts of John Tylerﾽs presidency affected the man and came to shape the identity of the new American nation.
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