Born: March 29, 1790, in Greenway, Virginia... Following the sudden death of William Henry Harrison, Vice President John Tyler assumed the presidency. "His Accidency" quickly ran afoul of his own ...

Prof. Leahy (Keuka) has written an impressive biography of an often overlooked, and very complex, American and his presidency. He gives us Tyler, good and bad, a man of his times and class, a good ...