Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United ... He was known as “The Little Magician,” “Matty Van,” “The Careful Dutchman,” “American Talleyrand,” “King Martin ...

but its longevity suggests that maybe the Little Magician was right. Mark R. Cheathem, Ph.D., is professor of history and project director/co-editor of the new Papers of Martin Van Buren project ...

Martin Van Buren earned two nicknames during his lifetime: “the Little Magician”—he was a smooth politician—and “Old Kinderhook” from the town where he was born. “Old Kinderhook ...

propaganda — started under Martin Van Buren.” Read on for a few things we may not have learned in history class about the man dubbed “the Little Magician” for his diminutive frame and wily ...

Martin Van Buren is mostly known for being mostly ... Martin Van Ruin or the Little Magician? I wrote it! As a new project, we have not had many questions. But I needed something to fill that ...

Despite his administration’s successful push in outlawing bigamy and legalizing divorce, President Martin Van Buren (whose nickname was “Little Magician”) is hardly remembered for his policies.

Widmer wrote a biography of Martin Van Buren: "I was attracted to the idea of trying to make an obscure president a little bit less obscure. I think I succeeded in that very small goal.

When Martin Van Buren arrived in Washington ... Born in 1782 to a tavern-keeping family in Kinderhook, New York, Van Buren had little schooling but made himself a lawyer, rising to the heights ...