8vo. Colorful accounts and amusing historical anecdotes of momentous events that never made the schoolbooks: Why Lincoln Pardoned So Many; The Dangerous Recreation of Walking with T.R.( Teddy Roosevelt), How They Dressed to Visit Dolly Madison, The Cake Mania in Indiana,Weird Experience with Edgar Allen Poe,; The Meditations of a Camp Meeting etc .Numerous illus. Fine in hardcover in a Very Good dust jacket.

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