Published by Galley Press (1960), London, 1960
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Condition: G in G DJ ex-library. Gil Walker (illustrator). Some of the most engaging footnotes to history are the accounts of on-the-spot observers who have left graphic accounts in letters. 1861 was a critical date in American affairs, the summer after the first battle of Bull Run. He went everywhere and met everybody and , and the letters his aide-de-camp wrote of these visits preesnt a rare picture of a new country in its most critical phase of nationshood. Pennsylvania's model penitentiary, American trains, the farmers of Illinois, a moving picture of life. Pisani writes, "Will America some day be Europe's protector and master, just as a hundred years ago Europe was Ameirca's?" Library markings, first page removed, illustrated endpapers showing scenes of his travel, edge wear.