The lives and graves of our presidents . ich the author has accepted without scruple asnecessary to a fair presentation of each life. The difficulty of reducing the great amount of material inthe personal lives and historical relations of the presidentsto the narrow limits of a moderate-sized book cannot berealized by any one till he undertakes a similar task. The difficulty of reconciling the conflicting statements ofdifferent biographers and the differences of historians, and ofsupplying the deficiencies of their information, is greater thancan be apprehended till one has had the experience
The lives and graves of our presidents . ich the author has accepted without scruple asnecessary to a fair presentation of each life. The difficulty of reducing the great amount of material inthe personal lives and historical relations of the presidentsto the narrow limits of a moderate-sized book cannot berealized by any one till he undertakes a similar task. The difficulty of reconciling the conflicting statements ofdifferent biographers and the differences of historians, and ofsupplying the deficiencies of their information, is greater thancan be apprehended till one has had the experience of aneffort of this kind. The authors hope is to so win attention to the historyand biography of the country that his readers will get athirst for the larger works, and will so acquaint themselveswith them as to become alive to the principles involved inour government and its history. Few things would be morebeneficial than a general re-study of our national is waning for want of it. Chicago, January 2, 1884. G. S.
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