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Jared Cohen (Author) out of 5 stars ratings/5(). From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world—the vice presidents of the modern era—from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.

Vice presidents occupy a unique and important position, living partway in the spotlight and part in the wings/5(48). Book review: ‘The American Vice Presidency,’ by Jules Witcover Few readers of syndicated columnist Jules Witcover’s compendium of short portraits of the nation’s vice presidents will.

Brief write-ups on the 43 vice-presidents&#;comprised of contemporary quotes, trivia, and feeble, witless sallies. Why was Washington elected president, not John Adams.

""It was important to elect a man who would look like the Father of His Country&#;a tall, dignified, and universally respected man, rather than a small, peppery, fat man, sometimes referred to as 'His Royal Rotundity.

Footnotes [1] Christopher Andrews, For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush (Harper Collins, ). [2] John L. Helgerson, Getting to Know the President: Intelligence Briefings of Presidential Candidates, – (Center for the Study of Intelligence, ).

[3] Guy Champniss, Hugh N. Wilson, and Emma K. Macdonald, “Why Your. There have been 48 vice presidents of the United States since the office came into existence in Originally, the vice president was the person who received the second most votes for president in the Electoral r, in the election of a tie in the electoral college between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr led to the selection of the president by the House of Representatives.

The American Vice Presidency is an all-inclusive examination of the vice presidency throughout American med political journalist and author Jules Witcover chronicles each of the 47 vice presidents, including their personal biographies and their achievements--or lack thereof--during their vice presidential tenures/5.

The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a 4-year term by the people through the Electoral officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.

Since the office was established in44 men have served as president. A veteran journalist who has published copiously about the vice presidency offers an exhaustive survey. Syndicated politics columnist Witcover (Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption,etc.) relates the saga of all 47 vice presidents of the United States, from John Adams to Joe gh biographical information is abundant for each man, the author emphasizes the political context.

Vice president of the United States of America, officer next in rank to the president of the United States, who ascends to the presidency on the event of the president’s death, disability, resignation, or vice president also serves as the presiding officer of the U.S.

Senate, a role that is mostly ceremonial but that gives the vice president the tie-breaking vote when the Senate. Concise write-ups of the lives of the U.S. Vice Presidents through Al Gore, the incumbent when this book was published. There are a handful of factual errors and typos throughout, which seem to be the result of sloppy editing: i.e.

a reference to "Senator" Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Foley was not Speaker of the House inrepeated reference to presidents being "elected" in the odd-numbered 4/5.

"The book shows the personal side of my dad," author Charlotte Pence said Tuesday in a phone interview with The Christian Post about her book, Marlon Bundo's A Day in the Life of the Vice President, along with her mother Karen, a watercolorist who did the illustrations.

Proceeds from sales will benefit anti-human trafficking efforts and art. - Vice Presidents. See more ideas about Presidents, Vice president and American presidents pins. Adams was the nation's first vice president, serving under George Washington for two terms.

A revolutionary hero, he once said "the vice presidency is. The vice presidents have hailed from 21 states. More than half of them have come from just five states, New York (11), Indiana (5), Massachusetts (4), Kentucky (3), and Texas (3). Most vice presidents have been in their 50s or 60s and had political experience prior to assuming the office.

The youngest person to become Vice President was John C. The vice president of the United States is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of vice president is also an officer in the legislative branch, as president of the this capacity, the vice president is empowered to preside over Senate Appointer: Electoral College.

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Some vice presidents have been born in one state, but are commonly associated with another. New York has produced eight vice presidents, the most of any state: George Clinton, Daniel D.

Tompkins, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Schuyler Colfax, William A. Wheeler, Theodore Roosevelt, and James S. Sherman. Here's a by-the-numbers look at the vice presidency: a job described by some of the people who have held it as an insignificant one.

America's Worst Vice Presidents. As the nation waits for John McCain and Barack Obama to announce their running mates, TIME looks back at the worst vice presidents in the country's history. Get this from a library! Cheney: the untold story of America's most powerful and controversial vice president.

[Stephen F Hayes] -- During a forty-year career in politics, Vice President Dick Cheney has been involved in some of the most consequential decisions in recent American history. Yet for all of his influence, the world.Below you will find a complete list of U.S.

Vice Presidents. Each Vice President of the United States appears numerically along with the years they served in office and the respective Presidents they served under.

Be sure and visit our list of U.S. Presidents in chronological order with .This is a list of vice presidents of the United States by first table charts the age of each vice president of the United States at the time of their inauguration (first inauguration if they were elected to multiple and consecutive terms), at the time they left office, and at the time of their death.

Each vice president's age at death, their lifespan, is measured in two ways; this is.