Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Thomas Moran and George Caleb Bingham. The Peggy Eaton affair - a tavern-keeper's daughter marries into Jackson's cabinet, the other wives refuse to receive her, and the president breaks his government over it. Lewis was a Washington correspondent and wrote the politics from the inside. This edition is bound with 54 plates of paintings by George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt and others, alongside five illustrations restored and coloured.