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Seward : Lincoln's indispensable man
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Title
Seward : Lincoln's indispensable man / Walter Stahr.
ISBN
9781439121160 (hardcover)
1439121168 (hardcover)
9781439121184 (pbk.)
1439121184 (pbk.)
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Physical Description
viii, 703 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Summary
From one of our most acclaimed new biographers--the first full life of the leader of Lincoln's "Team of Rivals"--William Henry Seward, one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 24, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Elements of a statesman: 1801 to 1830
Who is William H. Seward? 1831-1838
A higher standard of social perfection: 1839-1842
You and I can and must do it: 1843 to 1849
A higher law than the Constitution: 1849-1854
Foremost statesman of the whole north: 1854-1856
Irrepressible conflict: 1857-1859
Lincoln nominated third ballot: 1860
Save the Union in my own way: November 1860 to March 1861
I must do it: March to April 1861
Through the fires of Tophet: 1861
Remove him: 1862
Ask not whether the enemy is near: 1863
Firm and hopeful: 1864
I am not dead: 1865
Political apostasy: 1866
Let us make the treaty tonight: 1867
I'll see you damned first: 1868-69
Nothing remained... but to keep in motion: 1869-72.
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