Product Description: 1860: The American capital is sprawling, fractured, squalid, colored by patriotism and treason, and deeply divided along the political lines that will soon embroil the nation in bloody conflict. Chaotic and corrupt, the young city is populated by bellicose congressmen, Confederate conspirators, and enterprising prostitutes...read more

Product Description: 1927. Illustrated. Journalist and political activist Heywood Broun and Pulitzer prize winning author Margaret Leech have written the biography of Anthony Comstock, American morals crusader. He served with the Union army in the Civil War and was later active as an antiabortionist and in advocating the suppression of obscene literature...read more

Product Description: Winner of the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in History, it is an authentic, scholarly description of life in Washington during the Civil War, written in a highly readable style. In 2001 a Reader's Catalog Selection, "one of the 40,000+ best books in print." (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Biography of william mckinely