TY - BOOK AU - Baumgartner,Jody C. AU - Crumblin,Thomas F. TI - The American Vice Presidency: From the Shadow to the Spotlight SN - 9781442228900 AV - JK609.5 U1 - 352.23/90973 PY - 2015/// CY - Blue Ridge Summit PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated KW - Vice-Presidents--United States KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Vice Presidency -- Chapter 2. Origins: The Constitutional Convention and Pre-Twelfth Amendment Vice Presidents -- Chapter 3. The Traditional Era: Nineteenth-Century Vice Presidents -- Chapter 4. Setting the Stage: Transitional-Era Vice Presidents -- Chapter 5. The Rise of the Modern Vice Presidency -- Chapter 6. Vice Presidents in the Modern Age -- Chapter 7. Al Gore and the Gore-Clinton Partnership -- Chapter 8. Dick Cheney: George W. Bush's Loyal Lieutenant -- Chapter 9. Joe Biden: Barack Obama's Handyman -- Chapter 10. Making Sense of It All: The Future of the Vice Presidency -- Index -- About the Authors N2 - Concise yet comprehensive, The American Vice Presidency is the fullest and most accurate examination of the office of the vice president to date, covering the origins and constitutional roots of the institution, its history, and the slow transformation of the office starting in the mid-twentieth century UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2077537 ER -