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Edward P. Crapol, "John Tyler and the Pursuit of National Destiny," Journal of the Early American Republic, Vol. 17, no.3 (October 1997)
John Tyler rarely has been credited, either by contemporary observers or later historians, for having a vision of national destiny. Although he served as president during the "manifest destiny" decade of the 1840s, or what more recently has been characterized by one historian as an era of "manifest design," Tyler routinely has been dismissed as a n ...
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