Sketches and Studies
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Chapters (27)(click to expand)
- SKETCHES AND STUDIES
- LIFE OF FRANKLIN PIERCE.
- PREFACE.
- CHAPTER I.
- HIS PARENTAGE AND EARLY LIFE.
- CHAPTER II.
- HIS SERVICES IN THE STATE AND NATIONAL LEGISLATURES.
- CHAPTER III.
- HIS SUCCESS AT THE BAR.
- CHAPTER IV.
- THE MEXICAN WAR.
- CHAPTER V.
- HIS SERVICES IN THE VALLEY OF MEXICO.
- CHAPTER VI.
- THE COMPROMISE AND OTHER MATTERS.
- CHAPTER VII.
- HIS NOMINATION FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
- NOTE.
- CHIEFLY ABOUT WAR MATTERS.
- ALICE DOANE’S APPEAL.
- THE ANCESTRAL FOOTSTEP
- Outlines of an English Romance. INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
- THE ANCESTRAL FOOTSTEP.
- Outlines of an English Romance. I.
- II.
- III.
- THE END
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