| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Dan Monroe. The Republican Vision of John Tyler. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2003. Pp. x, 252 $39.95.

Dan Monroe's study of John Tyler's career down through his presidency attempts to address and redress the oft-made charge that Tyler was a fanatic whose extremism destroyed his own public life and seriously jeopardized the political viability and economic program of the Whig Party. Monroe contends that, to the contrary, Tyler's policies were principled and were derived from, and consistent with, a republican ideology inherited from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. From Tyler's education at William and Mary College through his life in politics as United States representative, governor of Virginia, senator, and finally president, he remained intent on "acting in a virtuous republican manner." Although Monroe is careful to point out the pragmatic turns in Tyler's public positions and policy decisions, readers will conclude that his republican principles were axiomatic and controlling. Put in other terms, Tyler consistently looked to an idyllic and static Jeffersonian past for guidance in an imperfect and politically fluid present.

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