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Easton Press leather edition of Robert Seager II's "And Tyler Too," a COLLECTOR'S edition, one of the LIBRARY OF THE PRESIDENTS series, published in 1963. Bound in grey leather, the book has decorative paper end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, gold gilding on top edge only---in near FINE condition. COLLECTOR'S NOTES is included. J ohn Tyler, who lived from 1790 – 1862, was the 10th president of the U.S. , serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the 10th vice president in 1841. Tyler was a stalwart supporter and advocate of states' rights , including regarding slavery , and he adopted nationalistic policies as president only when they did not infringe on the powers of the states. His unexpected rise to the presidency posed a threat to the presidential ambitions of HENRY CLAY and other Whig politicians, and left Tyler estranged from both of the nation's major political parties at the time. Tyler was born into a prominent slaveholding Virginia family. He was initially a Democrat , but he opposed President ANDREW JACKSON during the Nullification Crisis as he saw Jackson's actions as infringing on states' rights and criticized Jackson's expansion of executive power during the Bank War . Tyler served as a Virginia state legislator and governor, U.S. representative and U.S. Senator . Under the campaign slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too," the Harrison-Tyler ticket defeated incumbent president MARTIN VAN BUREN . President Harrison died just one month after taking office, and Tyler became the first vice president to succeed to the presidency without being elected. Amid uncertainty as to whether a vice president succeeded a deceased president, or merely took on his duties, Tyler immediately took the presidential oath of office , setting a lasting precedent, though some denied he was fully president. After his first wife died in 1842, he married JULIA GARDINER in a NEW YORK wedding and they became the parents to seven children, the last child when Tyler was 70 years old. Sexy John Tyler fathered eight children with his first wife, giving Tyler the distinction of fathering the most children of any president. Tyler signed into law some of the Whig-controlled Congress's bills, but he was a strict constructionist and vetoed the party's bills to create a national bank and raise tariff rates. He believed that the president, rather than Congress, should set policy, and he sought to bypass the Whig establishment led by Senator Henry Clay . Most of Tyler's Cabinet resigned shortly into his term and the Whigs expelled him from the party, dubbing him "His Accidency." Tyler was the first president to have his veto of legislation overridden by Congress. He faced a stalemate on domestic policy, although he had several foreign-policy achievements. Tyler was a firm believer in manifest destiny and saw the annexation of Texas as economically advantageous to the United States, signing a bill to offer statehood to Texas just before leaving office and returning to his plantation. When the American Civil War began in 1861, Tyler sided with the Confederacy. Some scholars have praised Tyler's political resolve, but historians have generally given his presidency a low ranking. Robert Seager was born in 1924 in Nanking, China, the son of an Episcopal missionary. He was educated at RUTGERS and COLUMBIA and received his Ph.D. from Ohio State. 681 pages, including an index. I offer combined shipping.