xiv, 318; ix, 321 pp. Two volume set. Includes black-and-white illustrations and plates. VOLUME I CONTENTS: For Five Years; 1801-1807: Failures and Follies: The Smaller Boston; The Virginian Dynasty; James Monroe; 1808-1840: The Other Side of the Water; Internal Improvement. VOLUME II CONTENTS: The Oratores; Modern American Oratory; The Historians; Antislavery; Personal: Texas, Kansas, and Nebraska; The War; Literature; A Review.
