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Hardcover, blue cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 448 pages. Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustrated throughout with monochrome and color images and maps. Stated first edition. No previous ownership marks. A family history, culled mainly from letters and diaries, of four generations of one of the most influential dynasty’s in the history of the nascent United States of America. From their numbers came two presidents, a cabinet officer, a railroad magnate, a congressman, a diplomat a soldier and a muckraking journalist. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Mild edge-wear to dust-jacket. Very good+ in a very good dust-jacket.