In this second volume of Wallner's Pierce biography, President Pierce faces unscrupulous and corrupt politicians, comically inept diplomats, violent adventurers

First definitive biography of the fourteenth President, giving a psychological interpretation of the man in relation to his turbulent times.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American author that contributed significantly to the dark romanticism genre. Hawthorne was the great grandson of John Hathorne, one

Chronicles the life and political career of the fourteenth president of the United States.