September 1, 2006
The Growing Power of the Vice Presidency
Jody C. Baumgartner, assistant professor of political science, East Carolina University
John Nance Garner, one of three vice presidents who served under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, famously stated that his office was not "worth a bucket of warm piss." But in Mr. Baumgartner's new book, The American Vice Presidency Reconsidered (Praeger), he traces the rise in the power and esteem of the office and of those elected to it.
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