Raphael Tuck & Sons used Fred Buchanan’s cartoon art on postcards for a quarter-century but few of his cards, if any were sold in America. Was his humor purely British? A mystery to be solved. Who knows the answer?
Wheatland, the home of James Buchanan, is a small estate in the rolling-hills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, eighty miles west of Philadelphia. It was much the same 165 years ago, an unlikely place to find a presidential candidate who would be dubbed a “doughface.”