Henry Watterson, for half a century editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, recalls a life lived among politicians: boyhood in Washington under Jackson and Polk, service with the Confederacy, the reconciliation of North and South, the disputed Tilden election of 1876, and a long gallery of statesmen, journalists, actors and wits on both sides of the Atlantic.
A gossipy, vivid memoir of 1919 by a Southern editor whose views of Reconstruction are those of his time and section. Download the free EPUB.