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A timely and intimate look into Abraham Lincoln’s White House through the lives of his two closest aides and confidants 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 bec
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"A century before Harry Hopkins, Clark Clifford, or Ted Sorensen, John Hay and John Nicolay performed the duties of presidential aides, advisers, political operatives, and confidants. Even the great Abraham Lincoln needed support, and Joshua Zeitz captures perfectly the intimate, interior world of the White House"-David Plouffe, former White House senior advisor
"Lincoln's Boys puts flesh and bones on the story of the two young men at the center of Abraham Lincoln's world -- and, by extension, at the center of everything. Beautifully researched and written, it restores to their full stature two figures who may have been young but left a deep mark upon history. Highly recommended."-Ted Widmer, former presidential speechwriter; author of Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City
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"A century before Harry Hopkins, Clark Clifford, or Ted Sorensen, John Hay and John Nicolay performed the duties of presidential aides, advisers, political operatives, and confidants. Even the great Abraham Lincoln needed support, and Joshua Zeitz captures perfectly the intimate, interior world of the White House"-David Plouffe, former White House senior advisor
"Lincoln's Boys puts flesh and bones on the story of the two young men at the center of Abraham Lincoln's world -- and, by extension, at the center of everything. Beautifully researched and written, it restores to their full stature two figures who may have been young but left a deep mark upon history. Highly recommended."-Ted Widmer, former presidential speechwriter; author of Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City
Joshua Zeitz has taught American history and politics at Cambridge University, Harvard University, and Princeton University. He is the author of several books on American political and social history and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Dissent, and American Heritage. A former congressional campaign aide and gubernatorial policy advisor and speechwriter, Zeitz lives with his wife and two daughters in Hoboken and Ocean Grove, NJ.
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