Considered one of the best treatments of the presidency of Abraham
Lincoln of its time, this portrait of the man and his
administration of the United States at the moment of its greatest
upheaval is both intimate and scholarly. Written by two private
secretaries to the president and first published in 1890, this
astonishingly in-depth work is still praised today for its clear,
easy-to-read style and vitality. This new replica edition features
all the original illustrations. Volume Two covers: the conventions
of 1856 "Congressional ruffianism" Dred Scott the Lincoln-Douglas
debates Lincoln's Ohio speeches the Cooper Institute speech the
presidential election beginnings of rebellion the "Forty Muskets"
and much more. American journalist and statesman JOHN MILTON HAY
(1838-1905) was only 22 when he became a private secretary to
Lincoln. A former member of the Providence literary circle when he
attended Brown University in the late 1850s, he may have been the
real author of Lincoln's famous "Letter to Mrs. Bixby." After
Lincoln's death, Hay later served as editor of the *New York
Tribune* and as U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom under
President William McKinley. American author JOHN GEORGE NICOLAY
(1832-1901) was born in Germany and emigrated to the U.S. as a
child. Before serving as Lincoln's private secretary, he worked as
a newspaper editor and later as assistant to the secretary of state
of Illinois. He also wrote *Campaigns of the Civil War* (1881).
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