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SIMPSON, STEPHEN. The Lives of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson: With a Parallel. Philadelphia: Henry Young, 1833. 1st ed. 12mo. 6, 389, [1] pp. Errata leaf. Frontis. (slightly frayed & loose). Orig. cloth, leather label. $175.00

 

Howes S 506. B & B 21222. Simpson was a cashier at Girard's Bank and later wrote on Girard. He distinguished himself at the Battle of New Orleans,  and formed "an admiration for Andrew Jackson which motivated much of his political writing a decade later.  He wrote for numerous periodicals and founded his own, the Portico, a miscellany which  discussed "every topic from Russian literature to nervous diseases." In the 1820s he became the first, albeit unsuccessful, candidate for Congress "of the initial political organization of workers in the United States, the Workingmen's Party of Philadelphia....The chief expression of his views is to be found in The Working Man's Manual: a New Theory of Political Economy on the Principle of Production the Source of Wealth (Philadelphia 1831)...informed by the philosophy of Robert Owen as made specific in the advocacies of Robert Dale Owen and Frances Wright." --DAB.. A very scarce biography, each later separately published.