Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 126 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. "Discover the history of a mysterious disease that struck the National Hotel in 1857"--

Alternative title

1. Outbreak in Washington, DC

Subject

1. 1800-1899
2. Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
3. Conspiracies > Washington (D.C.) > History > 19th century
4. Conspiracies
5. Curiosities and wonders > Washington (D.C.) > History > 19th century
6. Curiosities and wonders
7. Disease Outbreaks > history
8. District of Columbia
9. Epidemics > Washington (D.C.) > History > 19th century
10. Epidemics
11. History, 19th Century
12. National Hotel (Washington, D.C.)
13. National Hotel (Washington, D.C.) > History > 19th century
14. Panic > History > 19th century
15. Panic
16. Politics
17. Public Health > history
18. Public Opinion > history
19. Public health > Washington (D.C.) > History > 19th century
20. Public health
21. Sanitation > history
22. Social conditions
23. Washington (D.C.)
24. Washington (D.C.) > History > 19th century
25. Washington (D.C.) > Social conditions > 19th century

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-121) and index.