How much do you know about President Martin Van Buren? Chances are, not much. The eighth president of the United States, who served from 1837 - 1841, does not usually get Mount Rushmore-level ...
Who Was Martin Van Buren? Martin Van Buren studied law and held various political positions before serving as U.S. senator, as secretary of state and as vice president. He was elected the eighth ...
In the latest volume of Arthur Schlesinger's American Presidents series, Widmer (Young America) paints a brief but elegant portrait of our eighth president, who, Widmer says, created the modern ...
From the outset, James M. Bradley renounces any effort to rebuild Martin Van Buren’s pedestrian presidential reputation. A lackluster speaker, a vice president who never emerged out of Andrew ...
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