Writing just after the Civil War, America’s leading popular biographer sketches the men and women of the preceding era: the statesmen Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun and John Randolph; the merchant Stephen Girard; James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald; Charles Goodyear, Commodore Vanderbilt, John Jacob Astor, Theodosia Burr and Henry Ward Beecher.
Lively, opinionated portraits from a master of nineteenth-century biography. Download the free EPUB.