Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, And The War For Lincoln's Image Hardcover. - 2014
by Zeitz, Joshua
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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Details
- Title Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, And The War For Lincoln's Image
- Author Zeitz, Joshua
- Binding Hardcover.
- Edition 1st Printing
- Condition Used - Vg/Vg Spine Ends Lightly Worn. Pages: 390.
- Pages 390
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking / Penguin, New York
- Date 2014
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # MASTER297124I
- ISBN 9780670025664 / 0670025666
- Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.4 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 3.56 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Presidents - United States, Presidents - United States - Staff
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013017052
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Lincoln’s official secretaries John Hay and John Nicolay enjoyed more access, witnessed more history, and knew Lincoln better than anyone outside of the president’s immediate family. Hay and Nicolay were the gatekeepers of the Lincoln legacy. They read poetry and attendeded the theater with the president, commiserated with him over Union army setbacks, and plotted electoral strategy. They were present at every seminal event, from the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to Lincoln’s delivery of the Gettysburg Address—and they wrote about it after his death.
In their biography of Lincoln, Hay and Nicolay fought to establish Lincoln’s heroic legacy and to preserve a narrative that saw slavery—not states’ rights—as the sole cause of the Civil War. As Joshua Zeitz shows, the image of a humble man with uncommon intellect who rose from obscurity to become a storied wartime leader and emancipator is very much their creation.
Drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs, Lincoln’s Boys is part political drama and part coming-of-age tale—a fascinating story of friendship, politics, war, and the contest over history and remembrance.
