Lincoln's Men: The President and His Private Secretaries - Softcover

Epstein, Daniel Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061565490 ISBN 13: 9780061565496

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2010

Synopsis

During the Civil War three intelligent, articulate young men served as Abraham Lincoln's secretaries. John Nicolay and John Hay lived in the White House across the hall from the president's office and, together with William Stoddard, spent more time with Lincoln than anyone else outside his immediate family. Lincoln's Men is a fascinating, intimate, and moving portrait of life in the Civil War White House and of the beleaguered president's extraordinary relationship with the indispensable trio he used as a sounding board—the best and the brightest of their day who had a place near the center of Washington's grandest galas and a front-row seat on the drama of war.

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel Mark Epstein has written more than fifteen books of poetry, biography, and history, including the award-winning Lincoln and Whitman and The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage, named one of the top ten books of the year by the Wall Street Journal and Chicago Sun-Times.

Review:

“Daniel Mark Epstein’s LINCOLN’S MEN is no book of dry facts and figures. Instead, it is an intimate portrait of Lincoln, so well-drawn that he seems to come alive on the page.” (Charleston Post & Courier)

“Epstein brings something of an outsider’s perspective to the hothouse world of Lincoln scholarship.” (New York Times Book Review)

Working at close quarters with Lincoln at the White House was an education in itself, as Daniel Mark Epstein observes” (Wall Street Journal)

“Sheds light on the remarkable young men who served at Lincoln’s side.” (Washington Times)

“Lincoln, like most presidents, worked long hours. Really, really long hours. So it makes sense the folks who knew him best―and who offer possibly the freshest perspective on his well-documented life―were the guys he worked with every day of his presidency.” (Chicago Tribune)

“This is not your typical work of history. Epstein, a poet, employs a dreamy, novelistic tone in describing these young men and their tormented boss.” (USA Today)

“A fresh view.” (Albuquerque Journal)

“Captures the lives of Lincoln’s secretaries” (BookPage)

“An insider’s view of the [Lincoln] presidency...Nicolay and Hay wrote the diaries Lincoln never did, witnessing key moments from enviable vantage points.” (Courier-Journal)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061565490
• ISBN 13: 9780061565496
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272