Ben: Perley Poore watched Washington from the presidency of John Quincy Adams to the 1880s, first as a young traveller and then as one of the capital’s best-known correspondents. Both volumes are here, packed with debates, elections of the Speaker, parties and dinners, scandals, and sketches of presidents, senators and hostesses, each chapter closing with a facsimile autograph and short biography.
A lively and anecdotal source for nineteenth-century American political life. Download the free EPUB.