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AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION
AMERICAN HISTORY.
GEORGE TICKNOR CURTISS
LIFE OF
JAMES BUCHANAN.
HARPER & BROTHERS, New-York,
PUBLISH THIS DAY:
LIFE OF JAMES BUCHANAN,
Fifteenth President OF the United states.
GEORGE TICKNoR CURTIS.
Mem Publications.
GEORGE TIcKNoa CURTIS.
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The true history of Mr. Buchanans Administration has up
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immense has been written about H. no writer has had
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Cabinet the trying times which preceded the war
OF highest Importance that that history should be
The time has long passed when from political feel
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tho of twenty three years agOat Washington Mr.
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daily eTsztons interviews and occurrences lie
preserved important correspondence. The material for
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OF the absorbing interest Its revelations
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OF the most important period Of our
history the ResoutiOn and Knowing AS We do. the
which he et be used at the Time have
no Curtis has made such Of II that the
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