Signed book: Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion. First edition. NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1866. Hardcover, 6 x 9.5, 296 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in ink, "W. W. Brown Esquire, from his friend James Buchanan, 30 November 1865." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG-/None, with cracked hinges, wear and some splitting to spine cloth at joints, bumped corners, and rubbing to boards. Accompanied by a custom-made clamshell case.
In 1866, Buchanan published this book—the first-ever presidential memoir—through New York's D. Appleton and Company. In his typical lawyerly fashion, Buchanan offers a vigorous defense of his presidency in an attempt to rehabilitate his reputation after being blamed for failing to prevent the Civil War. A highly desirable signed book that kickstarted the tradition of the presidential memoir.
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