Description
Thick octavo, [two volumes], xxviii, [2], 607pp; vii, [3], 741pp. Three quarter blue leather, raised bands, decorative gilt compartments on spine, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Wear at edges, some loss at top edge of spine of Volume II. Clean text and complete. An attractive and scarce set by The Riverside Press. (Monaghan 2999)
Comments: Albert J. Beveridge started his career as a United States Senator from Indiana. After losing his senate seat, he became a historian, writing The Life of John Marshall. This detailed account of the life of the first Chief Justice won Beveridge a Pulitzer Prize for Biography. His final years were spent writing this book, which worked to demystify the early life of President Abraham Lincoln. After Beveridges’ untimely death, the manuscript was handed over to Carl Sandburg for completion.
