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Author Stahr, Walter.

Title Seward : Lincoln's indispensable man / Walter Stahr.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2012]
©2012

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 SEWARD    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY SEWARD    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO SEWARD    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B SEWARD    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B SEWARD, WILLIAM    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  B SEWARD, WILLIAM HENRY STA    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B SEWARD, WILLIAM    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-SEWARD STA    DUE 04-13-24
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 SEWARD, WIL    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B SEWARD    Check Shelf

Edition First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
Description viii, 703 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [551]-660) and index.
Contents "Elements of a statesman": 1801-1830 -- "Who is William H. Seward?": 1831-1838 -- "A higher standard of social perfection": 1839-1842 -- "You and I can and must do it": 1843-1849 -- "A higher law than the Constitution": 1849-1854 -- "Foremost statesman of the whole north": 1854-1856 -- "An irrepressible conflict": 1857-1859 -- "Lincoln nominated third ballot": 1860 -- "Save the Union in my own way": November 1860-March 1861 -- "I must do it": March-April 1861 -- "Through the fires of Tophet": 1861 -- "Remove him": 1862 -- "Ask not whether the enemy is near": 1863 -- "Firm and hopeful": 1864 -- "I am not dead": 1865 -- "Political apostasy": 1866 -- "Let us make the treaty tonight": 1867 -- "I'll see you damned first": 1868-1869 -- "Nothing remained... but to keep in motion": 1869-1872.
Summary From one of our most acclaimed new biographers--the first full life of the leader of Lincoln's "Team of Rivals"--William Henry Seward, one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century.
Subject Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872.
Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
United States. Department of State -- Biography.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1861-1865.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
ISBN 9781439121160 hardcover $32.50
1439121168 hardcover
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