The Lives and Graves of Our Presidents (Classic Reprint)

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A century of presidential lives is now inwoven with a century of American history. We are now in the centennial decade of our American national existence. We have just celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the battles of Lex ington and Concord, of Bunker Hill and Bennington, the Declaration of Independence, the evacuation of Boston, the surrender of Cornwallis, the departure of the British from New York, and last, Washington's surrender of his commis sion. Very soon will come the centennial of the adoption of the constitution, which Will close the centennial period of that great series of events, which gave us and the world the American republic. This book is designed to be a celebra tion of these and related events, all in one, and a rehearsal of the leading events of our country's first century.

It is thought that a double interest will attend the history by having it strung on the string of the presidents' lives, and a double value as well, by making the most of the book biographical as well as historical.

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