Best of
18th-Century

1957

The Road To Tyburn: The Story Of Jack Sheppard And The Eighteenth Century Underworld (Penguin Classic History)


Christopher Hibbert - 1957
    The story of Jack Sheppard and the Eighteenth-century London Underworld.

Albert Gallatin: Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat


Raymond Walters Jr. - 1957
    presents the definitive biography of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), recounting sixty years that the Swiss-born diplomat served his adopted country as a congressional leader, Secretary of the Treasury, financier, and ambassador. Gallatin was a founder of the House Committee on Finance (later the Ways and Means Committee), a member of the new Democratic-Republican Party, and an active politician who opposed the Federalist Party and its programs, while also helping to bring about the election of Thomas Jefferson.