Place Of Honor

ISBN: 0595166288

Author: Tibbitts, Casey

Condition: New

It is the winter of 1835, and the nation is being torn apart by the notorious institution of slavery. In thenation's capital, President Andrew Jackson and House Speaker James K. Polk struggle to maintain the peace as the Fire-Eaters of the South and Abolitionists of the North wage war in Congress on a daily basis. Meanwhile,an event thousands of miles away threatens to throw the nation into further chaos: the Texian revolution.In the midst of the fray are Franklin Pierce, a mild-mannered congressman from New Hampshire, and his old friend Jonathan Cilley of Maine. Surrounded bythe true political luminaries of the day and inspired by the incomparable Congressman John Quincy Adams, thetwo men soon find themselves embroiled in the titanic struggle that will one day lead to civil war.Ranging from the muddy streets of Washington to the pastoral hills of Maine and desolate outposts of Texas, Place Of Honor tells the remarkable true story of a period in American history that has been all but forgotten.