| Description |
xi, 666 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Portrait of an ambitious young man -- A budding politician -- Family and fortune -- Road to the governor's mansion -- Governor Seward : philosophy and practice -- The fortunes of political war -- New horizons -- Political maneuvers -- "A higher law" -- Aftermath -- Twilight of the Whigs -- A frustrated Republican -- Seedtime -- The higher destiny -- The best laid plans -- Into the breach once more -- To save the Union -- Head of the family -- Crisis and responsibility -- An aggressive diplomat -- The Trent Affair -- Calm and storm -- Seward and Lincoln -- The difficult British -- Other aspects of wartime diplomacy -- Of war and peace, and freedom -- A possible road to the White House -- Private lives -- A maelstrom and a plan -- Seward and Johnson -- Political disaster -- The end of political dreams -- Maximilian -- The Alabama Claims -- Westward the Star of Empire -- The quest for island outposts -- Toward the Aurora Borealis -- The last phase. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 635-648. |
| Subject |
Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872.
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