Easton Press: PRESIDENT ZACHARY TAYLOR: MEXICAN WAR GENERAL: SEMINOLE INDIANS

Description: Easton Press leather edition of Holman Hamilton's "Zachary Taylor: Soldier of the Republic," Volume one and ""Zachary Taylor: Soldier in the White House," Volume 2, COLLECTOR'S editions, two of the LIBRARY OF THE PRESIDENTS series, published in 1989. Bound in black leather, the books have decorative paper end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. COLLECTOR'S NOTES is included. Zachary Taylor, who lived from 1784-1859, was the 12th President of the U.S., 1849-1850..Taylor stood about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed about 170 pounds. He had long, gangling arms, a thickly set torso, thick hairy chest, and short, bowed legs. He dressed sloppily, wearing whatever was comfortable. Holman Hamilton says "he was a gentleman, inherently gracious, even gallant where women were concerned, and an affable and agreeable host. . . true to the Virginia-Kentucky tradition of unstudied gentlemanliness." Taylor married to Ann Mackall and they were parents to daughters, Sarah Knox and Mary Elizabeth, and son, Richard. Taylor was born in Orange County, Virginia, but the family moved to Louisville, Kentucky. Volume one covers the entire span of Taylor's military career from his earlies service in the Indian warfare on the fringe of the frontier, to his great triumphs on bloodstained Mexican battlefields. Here too, is the true romantic story of the courtship and marriage of Taylor's daughter, SARAH KNOX TAYLOR and JEFFERSON DAVIS. Taylor fought in four wars, and was distinguished in all of them. "Old Rough and Ready," as he was affectionately called by his men, was first and foremost a soldier. He was the ideal soldier: loyal, brave, resourceful, conscientious, dependable. Grant, Lincoln, Lee and Davis were once under his command. Volume two traces Taylor's return to the U.S. in December 1847 from the bloody Mexican battlefield to his death in July 1850. Upon his return to his plantation in Mississippi, Taylor was no longer an anonymous soldier. He was showered with medals, popular songs were dedicated to him, and girls threw flowers at his feet. Almost immediately after his inauguration, Taylor, the old slave-holding soldier, staunchly stood his ground against the extension of slavery by encouraging California and New Mexico to quickly draw up their free-soil constitutions and apply for statehood. Dead set against him were the leaders of his own party, HENRY CLAY and DANIEL WEBSTER, both pleading for a new compromise to again "temporarily" save the union while a dying JOHN C. CALHOUN sounded one of the first calls for secession. Taylor was no politician. Throughout his life, he never voted in an election. He knew little of the party that nominated him. Taylor was praised by Horace Greeley as a "good old soul who does not know himself from a side of sole leather in the way of statesmanship." Brigham Young, Governor of Utah Territory said: "Zachary Taylor is dead and gone to hell, and I am glad of it." Thomas Hart Benton said: "His death was a public calamity. No man could have been more devoted to the Union, or more opposed to the slavery agitation." Vol. one has 315 pages, including an Index and Vol. 2 has 496 pages, including an Index. I offer Combined shipping.

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