jazzeum
Four Star General
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Unlike Abraham Lincoln, about whom it is said that there have been more books written than any other historical personality, including Churchill, there are very few books about William H. Seward, one of the founders of the Republican Party, Lincoln's Secretary of State and mover behind the acquisition of the Alaska Territory in the late 1860s, which was described as Seward's Folly.
That lack has now been corrected with the recent publication of "Seward: Lincoln's Indispensible Man" by Walter Stahr. It has received a very good review by Michael Burlingame (noted Lincoln scholar) in the Wall Street Journal, The Patriot Statesman and the New Yorker, Union Man.
It is up next on my reading list.
That lack has now been corrected with the recent publication of "Seward: Lincoln's Indispensible Man" by Walter Stahr. It has received a very good review by Michael Burlingame (noted Lincoln scholar) in the Wall Street Journal, The Patriot Statesman and the New Yorker, Union Man.
It is up next on my reading list.