xxii, 657; xviii, 617 pp. 8vo. Leather spines and corners, gilt titles, pebbled cloth boards, marbled edges and endpapers. Illustrated with steel engraved plates, including portraits of Thurlow Weed, John Quincy Adams, William Morgan, William H. Seward, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, De Witt Clinton, Henry Clay, William L. Marcy, Daniel Webster, Winfield Scott, and Abraham Lincoln. Memoirs of the 'wizard of the lobby' who helped several candidates for president win their nominations. "Thurlow Weed (November 15, 1797 - November 22, 1882), was a New York political boss. While he never held national office himself, he was the principal political advisor to the prominent New York politician William H. Seward and was instrumental in the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison (1840), Henry Clay (1844), Zachary Taylor (1848), Winfield Scott (1852), and John Charles Fremont (1856)."
