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Excerpts from Land of Giants

Resigning his commission, the military hero joined Congress in acting out a strict protocol to symbolize the supremacy of civil government

How a statesman’s strange letter settled a court fight over a will

— until the shooting started

His career at Princeton prepared him for a larger role, but also showed his strange blend of strength and weakness

Janus Addison Reavis got rich—for a time, anyway—on his Peralta land fraud. But in the end he went to jail .

Aspirants for the White House begin humbly and rise fast in the typical campaign biography

In the mid-Ninteenth Century, enormous herds roamed the western plains. In a few years only scattered remnants of these survived.

If Buchanan had met the Kansas problem firmly we might have avoided civil war
The fourth in a series on TIMES OF TRIAL IN AMERICAN STATECRAFT

Salmon P. Chase’s beautiful daughter stopped at nothing, eevenn at marrying a rich scoundrel, in her zeal to make her father President