Stanton : Lincoln's war secretary
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Status
Central - Adult Biography
B STANTON E
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B STANTON E
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xix, 743 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Street Date
1708
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and some merely political. He was essential to the nation's survival, and Lincoln never wavered in his support for Stanton. As Lincoln lay dying, Stanton took over the government, informing the nation of the attacks on Lincoln and others, starting the investigation of the assassination, Under Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, Stanton insisted that the army had to remain in the South, to protect blacks and Unionists, while the president wanted to withdraw the troops. It was Johnson's ill-advised attempt to remove Stanton that led to the first impeachment of a president, an impeachment Johnson survived by a single vote. The New York diarist George Templeton Strong described Stanton after his death as 'honest, patriotic, able, indefatigable, warm-hearted, unselfish, incorruptible, arbitrary, capricious, tyrannical, vindictive, hateful, and cruel." But Stanton was also Lincoln's "right-hand man," responsible with Lincoln and Grant for saving the Union. In this, the first full biography of Stanton in fifty years, Stahr restores this complicated American hero to his proper place in our national story."--Jacket.
Subjects
LC Subjects
Biographies.
Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.
Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Friends and associates.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Biography.
Stanton, Edwin M. -- (Edwin McMasters), -- 1814-1869.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1869.
United States. -- War Department -- Biography.
Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.
Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Friends and associates.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Biography.
Stanton, Edwin M. -- (Edwin McMasters), -- 1814-1869.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1869.
United States. -- War Department -- Biography.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Stahr, W. (2017). Stanton: Lincoln's war secretary (First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.). Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stahr, Walter. 2017. Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stahr, Walter. Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary Simon & Schuster, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Stahr, Walter. Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition., Simon & Schuster, 2017.
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