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Seward - Lincoln's Indispensable Man (Paperback)
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Seward - Lincoln's Indispensable Man (Paperback)
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Loot Price R575
Discovery Miles 5 750
You Save R86 (13%)
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From one of our most acclaimed new biographers--the first full life
of the leader of Lincoln's "team of rivals" to appear in more than
forty years.
William Henry Seward was one of the most important Americans of the
nineteenth century. Progressive governor of New York and outspoken
US senator, he was the odds-on favorite to win the 1860 Republican
nomination for president. As secretary of state and Lincoln's
closest adviser during the Civil War, Seward not only managed
foreign affairs but had a substantial role in military, political,
and personnel matters.
Some of Lincoln's critics even saw Seward, erroneously, as the
power behind the throne; this is why John Wilkes Booth and his
colleagues attempted to kill Seward as well as Lincoln. Seward
survived the assassin's attack, continued as secretary of state,
and emerged as a staunch supporter of President Andrew Johnson,
Lincoln's controversial successor. Through his purchase of Alaska
("Seward's Folly"), and his groundwork for the purchase of the
Canal Zone and other territory, Seward set America on course to
become a world empire.
Seward was not only important, he was fascinating. Most nights this
well-known raconteur with unruly hair and untidy clothes would
gather diplomats, soldiers, politicians, or actors around his table
to enjoy a cigar, a drink, and a good story. Drawing on hundreds of
sources not available to or neglected by previous biographers,
Walter Stahr's bestselling biography sheds new light on this
complex and central figure, as well as on pivotal events of the
Civil War and its aftermath.
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