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The close of the war removes the period preceding it to a great distance from us, so that we can judge its public men as though we were the "posterity" to whom they sometimes appealed. James Buchanan still haunts the neighborhood of Lancaster, a living man, giving and receiving dinners, paying his taxes, and taking his accustomed exercise; but as an historical figure he is as complete as Bolingbroke or Walpole. It is not merely that his work is done, nor that the results of his work are apparent; but the thing upon which he wrought, by their relation to which he and his contemporaries. | Famous Americans of Recent Times 1 Famous Americans of Recent Times The Project Gutenberg eBook Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Famous Americans of Recent Times Author James Parton Release Date June 29 2004 eBook 12771 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FAMOUS AMERICANS OF RECENT TIMES E-text prepared by Curtis A. Weyant Keith M. Eckrich and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team FAMOUS AMERICANS OF RECENT TIMES By JAMES PARTON Author of Life of Andrew Jackson Life and Times of Aaron Burr Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin etc. 1867 Illustration . Calhoun CONTENTS HENRY CLAY DANIEL WEBSTER JOHN C. CALHOUN JOHN RANDOLPH STEPHEN GIRARD AND HIS COLLEGE JAMES GORDON BENNETT AND THE NEW YORK HERALD CHARLES GOODYEAR Famous Americans of Recent Times 2 HENRY WARD BEECHER AND HIS CHURCH COMMODORE VANDERBILT THEODOSIA BURR JOHN JACOB ASTOR NOTE The papers contained in this volume were originally published in the _North American Review_ with four exceptions. Those upon THEODOSIA BURR and JOhN JACOB ASTOR first appeared in _Harper s Magazine_ that upon COMMODORE VANDERBILT in the _New York Ledger_ and that upon HENRY WARD BEECHeR and his church in the Atlantic Monthly. HENRY CLAY. The close of the war removes the period preceding it to a great distance from us so that we can judge its public men as though we were the posterity to whom they sometimes appealed. James Buchanan still haunts the neighborhood of Lancaster a living man giving and receiving dinners paying his taxes and taking his accustomed exercise but as an historical figure he is as complete as Bolingbroke or Walpole. It is not merely that his work is done nor that the .

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• HENRY CLAY
• JAMES GORDON BENNETT
• CHARLES GOODYEAR
• JOHN RANDOLPH
• DANIEL WEBSTER
• JOHN C
• CALHOUN