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100 1  Cohen, Jared,|d1981-|eauthor. 
245 10 Accidental presidents :|beight men who changed America /
       |cJared Cohen. 
250    First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bSimon & Schuster,|c2019. 
300    xii, 509 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-488) and 
       index. 
520    "The strength and prestige of the American presidency has 
       waxed and waned since George Washington. Accidental 
       Presidents looks at eight men who came to the office 
       without being elected to it. It demonstrates how the 
       character of the man in that powerful seat affects the 
       nation and world.  Eight men have succeeded to the 
       presidency when the incumbent died in office. In one way 
       or another they vastly changed our history. Only Theodore 
       Roosevelt would have been elected in his own right. Only 
       TR, Truman, and LBJ were re-elected.  John Tyler succeeded
       William Henry Harrison who died 30 days into his term. He 
       was kicked out of his party and became the first president
       threatened with impeachment. Millard Fillmore succeeded 
       esteemed General Zachary Taylor. He immediately sacked the
       entire cabinet and delayed an inevitable Civil War by 
       standing with Henry Clay's compromise of 1850. Chester 
       Arthur, the embodiment of the spoils system, was so 
       reviled as James Garfield's successor that he had to 
       defend himself against plotting Garfield's assassination; 
       but he reformed the civil service. Andrew Johnson, who 
       succeeded our greatest president, sided with remnants of 
       the Confederacy in Reconstruction. Theodore Roosevelt 
       broke up the trusts. Calvin Coolidge silently cooled down 
       the Harding scandals and preserved the White House for the
       Republican Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. Truman
       surprised everybody when he succeeded the great FDR and 
       proved an able and accomplished president. Lyndon B. 
       Johnson was named to deliver Texas electorally. He led the
       nation forward on Civil Rights but failed on Vietnam.  
       Accidental Presidents adds immeasurably to our 
       understanding of the power and limits of the American 
       presidency in critical times"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Presidents|xSuccession|zUnited States|xHistory|vCase 
       studies. 
650  0 Presidents|zUnited States|vBiography.