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Accidental Presidents

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Succession and Democratic Theory
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    Chapter 2 John Tyler “I can never consent to being dictated to”
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    Chapter 3 Millard Fillmore “God save us from Whig Vice Presidents”
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    Chapter 4 Andrew Johnson “I care not about my dignity”
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    Chapter 5 Theodore Roosevelt “There’s only one life between that madman and the presidency”
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    Chapter 6 Chester A. Arthur “He isn’t Chet anymore, he’s the president”
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    Chapter 7 Harry S. Truman “I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me”
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    Chapter 8 Lyndon Baines Johnson “For millions of Americans I was still illegitimate, a naked man with no presidential covering, a pretender to the throne, an illegal usurper”
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    Chapter 9 Calvin Coolidge “I thought I could swing it”
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    Chapter 10 Gerald Ford “I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President”
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    Chapter 11 Conclusion: Refounding Succession
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Chapter title
Harry S. Truman “I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me”
Chapter number 7
Book title
Accidental Presidents
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, January 2008
DOI 10.1057/9780230613034_7
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-37435-9, 978-0-230-61303-4
Authors

Philip Abbott

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