Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest

Book Description

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1997. bookplate & blindstamp by former owner. 348pp; index; b/w photos, daguerreotypes, portraits, illus, maps; full navy leather, 4 raised bands, heavy gilt decorations, all edges gilt, satin book mark; From his roots in Virginia, youth in Kentucky and life as a planter of cotton, & owner of slaves in Louisiana, this account follows his military career, through the War of 1812, both the Blackhawk & Seminole wars & later the Mexican War to his reluctant acceptance of the Whig party nomination in the election of 1848; he detested the extension of slavery & any notion of secession, his strong opposition to Henry Clay & the Compromise of 1850, dying in office less than 15 months after becomming president; ephemera, 1 2 sided sheet of Collector's Notes by the publisher. . Collector's Edition. Full Leather. Near Fine. 9 1/2".

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