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Seward : Lincoln's indispensable man / Walter Stahr.

by Stahr, Walter.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.

Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872.

United States. Department of State -- Biography.

Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.

Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.

United States -- Foreign relations -- 1861-1865.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.

9781439121160 (hardcover) :

1439121168 (hardcover)

9781439121184 (pbk.)

1439121184 (pbk.)

viii, 703 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

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.

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.

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