William Henry Seward (P): Lincoln's Right Hand

by JohnM.Taylor (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $40.34

  Why did Seward, front-runner for the 1860 GOP presidential nomination, lose his party's nod to the relatively unknown Lincoln, and why has he been so completely eclipsed by him since? Taylor depicts a politico whose manifold talents were often undermined by his own ambiguity (even Seward admitted that he found myself an enigma to myself').