The authors contemplate the origins, architecture and commercial growth of wayside eateries in the US over the past 100 years. Fast Food examines the impact of the automobile on the restaurant business and offers an account of roadside dining.

Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)

Georg Friederich Reinhardt (1811-1885), a fifth-generation descendant of Johannes P. Reinhardt, emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1854. His wife, Gottliebin "Lena" Linder (1809-1879) and children immigrated in 1857-58. They lived in Illinois.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

For twenty-five years after the president's death William Herndon, his law partner, conducted interviews with and solicited letters from dozens of persons who knew Lincoln personally.