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Rotary Clubs of Tallahassee. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. First Edition; First Impression. Hardcover. xlibrary. Has Discard Stamp, Black out on title page and on edge of pages, otherwise readable.dust in Mylar. the turbulent politics of the new Florida territory and in the valiant effort to establish a society in keeping with ancestral position the personal influences of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Andrew Jackson, perhaps even of Aaron Burr, were strong. None of these men of Revolutionary times ever saw Florida, except Jackson, who was captured by the British as a 13 year old revolutionary militiaman and grew up to be governor of Florida on his way to the presidency. But their progeny, their kin, their disciples, neighbors and chroniclers came and played roles in planning United State government in what for most of three centuries had been an alien wilderness.; 9 X 6 X 0.90 inches; 144 pages .

Rotary Club, 1976. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Bottom board bumped. Light edgewear to jacket. Inscribed by the author..

Tallahassee, FL: the Rotary Clubs of Tallahassee, [1976]. Signed and Inscribed by Author. Octavo, red leatherette, (hardcover), gilt letters, ii, 144 pp. Near-Fine, with small former-owner signature, in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. “American independence arrived half a century late to Florida. But the blood of founding patriots ran strong in the veins of pioneers who moved into the new territory when it opened up just as our nation approached its 50th anniversary. Thomas Jefferson’s grandson was Tallahassee’s first reform mayor. Alexander Hamilton, Jr., ran for delegate to Congress in territorial Florida’s first full-term election, but lost. A grandson of Patrick Henry is buried at Quincy. George Washington’s great-grandniece came and married Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew in the Florida capital’s eighth wedding. The name of Tallahassee is said to have been chosen for the new Florida capital by the grand-niece of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Her father,… Leer más