The railroad lawyer, senator and famous after-dinner speaker looks back from his late eighties on a life in public affairs. Depew recalls Lincoln, Grant, Roscoe Conkling, Horace Greeley, Hayes and many other figures, and fills the pages with anecdotes of politics, business and society in America and abroad.
An anecdote-rich memoir of the Gilded Age by one of its best-known talkers. Download the free EPUB.