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Reviewed by Joel K. Goldstein | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 104.2 | The History Cooperative
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June, 2008
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REVIEWS

He Almost Changed the World
The Life and Times of Thomas Riley Marshall

By David J. Bennett
(Bloomington, Ind.: Authorhouse, 2007. Pp. xiii, 323. Bibliography, endnotes. Paper-bound, $19.95.)

Thomas Riley Marshall (1854–1925), the 28th U.S. vice president and the fourth of five from Indiana, has been largely ignored by biographers. David Bennett deserves credit for following Marshall's life from cradle to grave, but his book is disappointing in several respects. 1
      First, the thesis suggested by Bennett's title—that Marshall "almost changed the world"—is not substantiated by the evidence nor is it the actual premise of the book. Marshall did serve two full terms as Woodrow Wilson's vice president from 1913 to 1921, and he was the first vice president elected to consecutive terms since John C. Calhoun (1825–1832) as well as the first since Daniel Tomp-kins (1817–1825) to do so with the same president. Yet Marshall's vice-presidential activities came nowhere close to having the impact Bennett suggests. . . .
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