Zachary Taylor: Soldier in the White House (The Library of the Presidents)

496 pp. 8vo. Full black leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, endpapers decorated with presidential seal, ribbon marker bound in. The second volume of a two-volume biography of the twelfth President of the United States of America, who died after just over a year in office. He had previously distinguished himself as an officer during the Mexican-American War. This volume focuses on his presidency.