The Most Chaotic Election in American History Was Saved by an Irish Immigrant
The wild true story of a frontier printer who spat, fought, and wrote his way into the moment that held the nation together.
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Matthew Lyon didn’t glide into Congress the way some men did, carried by polish and pedigree. He arrived like a force –– an Irish immigrant with a face carved by work and weather, eyeb…