
Outbreak in Washington, D.C.
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The National was once the grandest hotel in the capital. In 1857, it twice hosted President-elect James Buchanan and his advisors, and on both occasions, most of the party was quickly stricken by an acute illness. Over the course of several months, hundreds fell ill, and over thirty died from what became known as the National Hotel disease.
Buchanan barely recovered enough to give his inauguration speech. Rumors ran rampant across the city and the nation. Some claimed that the illness was born of a sewage "effluvia," while others darkly speculated about an assassination attempt by either abolitionists or southern slaveowners intent on war. In this concise and captivating account of the events-as well as the panic and rumors surrounding them-Kerry Walters investigates the mysteries of the National Hotel disease.
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- Intro
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Panic in Washington
- I: An Acrimonious Year
- Slavery and Westward Expansion
- The Crisis Worsens
- The 1856 Campaign
- II: A City of Contrasts
- City of Magnificent Intentions
- City of Violence
- City of Filth
- The National Hotel
- III: A Stricken President-Elect
- "Why, I Have Been Poisoned!"
- Return to the National Hotel
- Buchanan's Health
- Off His Game
- A Bad Start
- IV: A National Panic
- The Poison Hypothesis
- The Miasma Hypothesis
- The Final Verdict
- V: The Allure of Conspiracy
- The Paranoid Style
- The Slave Power Conspiracy
- The Abolitionist Conspiracy
- The Jesuit Conspiracy
- A Last Word
- Appendix: Period Coverage of the National Hotel Disease
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author
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