Copyright 1959, by Harold Underwood Faulkner

Printed in the United States of America

This book was originally published in 1959 by Harper &
Brothers in The New American Nation Series edited by
Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris.

First HARPER TORCHBOOKedition published 1963 by
Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated
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