Volume 2 — A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
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(1774-1861)
By D.S. ALEXANDER. Two volumes. 840 pp. 8vo. $5.00 net (carriage extra).
This work presents a history of the movements of political parties in New York State from 1774 to 1861, and embraces a series of brilliant character studies of the leaders, most of them of national importance, who, from the days of George Clinton, have drawn the attention of the nation to New York. The astute methods and sources of power by which George Clinton, Hamilton, Burr, DeWitt Clinton, Van Buren, Seymour and Thurlow Weed each successively controlled the political destiny of the State are clearly and picturesquely set forth.
"It meets a want widely felt and repeatedly expressed during the past hundred years.... It would be impossible in a dozen notices to render any sort of justice to the extensive scope of this work and to the multiplicity of its interesting details."—From two leading articles, aggregating over ten columns, in the New York Sun.
"Will undoubtedly take its place as the authoritative work upon the subject."—Boston Transcript.
"Without question he has performed ... his task very capably. He addresses the general reader and takes pains to be entertaining, dealing with men in preference to measures—and only the most conspicuous, the most interesting men.... Of these outstanding figures there are full length portraits—biographies, indeed, in ample detail strung on a long thread of politics, while very many minor characters have thumb-nail sketches. Few of the good anecdotes available, it would seem, have escaped Mr. Alexander, and good stories do not suffer at his hands."—The New York Globe.
"Will not only repay careful reading, but should be placed among the permanent reference books of every man who has occasion to know anything about the politics of this state.... Estimates of the great men ... are among its most interesting features."—Buffalo Express.
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