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Hardcover. 12mo. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, MA. 1852. 144 pgs First Edition (4-page advertisements dated July 1852 inserted between front endpages). Bound in green cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine and textured boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. One of only two American presidential political biographies written by men of letters. Hawthorne was a college classmate and friend of Pierce's, and he wrote this during the presidential campaign of 1852. While professing objectivity, Hawthorne considered the work "a political biography, and as a representation of the principles and acts of a public man, intended to operate upon the minds of multitudes, during a presidential canvass." Pierce’s activities during the war are covered extensively on pp. 66-108. Pierce, a general, landed at Veracruz and went with the army all the way to final victory at Mexico City. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1852 Life of Franklin Pierce Presidential Biography HC Nathaniel Hawthorne 1852 Life of Franklin Pierce Presidential Biography HC Description
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Life of Franklin Pierce
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hardcover. 12mo. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, MA. 1852. 144 pgs First Edition (4-page advertisements dated July 1852 inserted between front endpages).
Bound in green cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine and blind embossed boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
One of only two American presidential political biographies written by men of letters. Hawthorne was a college classmate and friend of Pierce's, and he wrote this during the presidential campaign of 1852. While professing objectivity, Hawthorne considered the work "a political biography, and as a representation of the principles and acts of a public man, intended to operate upon the minds of multitudes, during a presidential canvass.".
Pierce’s activities during the war are covered extensively on pp. 66-108. Pierce, a general, landed at Veracruz and went with the army all the way to final victory at Mexico City.
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