Book Review: Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen

Abstract

This is a review of a book chronicling the presidencies of eight vice presidents of the United States who ascended to the presidency as a result of the respective incumbent presidents dying in office, and an additional vice president who became president when the incumbent resigned from office.

Keywords

• presidents
• presidential history
• harrison
• tyler
• taylor
• fillmore
• lincoln
• johnson
• garfield
• arthur
• mckinley
• roosevelt
• harding
• coolidge
• truman
• kennedy
• nixon
• ford