"Six Months at the White House" from Francis Bicknell Carpenter. American painter born in Homer, New York (1830-1900).

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He added his own impressions of the president, noting a deep melancholy underneath the famous humor. This book, originally published in 1866, struck a chord with a public hungering for intimate details about the fallen president.