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“As a single volume this work is overwhelmingly spectacular. Its meticulous scholarship and its intellectual breadth are surprising. Chase’s importance, his quotability, his human social outlook, his many perceptive comments, and the entire editors’ notes make this work a highly fascinating volume for 19th-century historians. Of the entire publications of presidents’ and politicans’ papers, volume I of the Chase Papers is in a category on its own and is essentially the most helpful first volume of any equivalent assortment.”―The North Carolina Historical Review