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Lincoln's boys : John Hay, John Nicolay, and the war for Lincoln's image / Joshua Zeitz.

by Zeitz, Joshua.

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New York : Viking, 2014.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Friends and associates.

Hay, John, 1838-1905.

Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Influence.

Private secretaries -- United States -- Biography.

Presidents -- United States -- Staff -- Biography.

Presidents -- United States -- Biography.

9780670025664 (hardcover) :

0670025666 (hardcover)

viii, 390 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Prologue: June 13, 1905 -- Exile in the west -- The homes of free white people -- It was my privilege to witness -- The prairies are on fire -- Wide awake -- A young man of his age -- Despotic act in the cause of union -- God placed him where he is -- New birth of freedom -- His heart was too sad -- Europe -- Pike County balladeer -- Breadwinners -- A model for all good little boys to follow -- Our ideal hero -- We are Lincoln men all through -- Lincolniana -- The fellows who came of age in the Lincoln years -- Epilogue: July 25, 1947.

Lincoln's official secretaries John Hay and John Nicolay witnessed more history, and knew Lincoln better than anyone outside of the president's immediate family. They were present at every seminal event, from the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg Address-- and they wrote about it after his death. Hay and Nicolay fought to preserve a narrative that saw slavery as the sole cause of the Civil War. Zeitz shows how the image of a humble man who rose from obscurity to become a storied wartime leader and emancipator is very much their creation.

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