A Talk by author Jared Cohen: Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America

Mr. Cohen will discuss the surprising and strange circumstances under which eight citizens each became President of the United States. Because of the deaths of their predecessors, eight men-- John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson-- assumed the highest office, for better or worse, as Mr Cohen explores.