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04876aam a2200637 i 4500 001 EE26FD16939111E7A673E95E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20170907010029 008 170512t20172017nyua b 001 0beng 010 $a 2017022628 020 $a 1476739307 020 $a 9781476739304 035 $a (OCoLC)987437170 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d GK8 $d MFM $d OCLCO $d ON8 $d JAI $d CLE $d CCE $d BUR $d OCL $d MOF $d TXDRI $d YDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d VA@ $d T3B $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E467.1 S8 S73 2017 100 1 $a Stahr, Walter, $e author. 245 10 $a Stanton : $b Lincoln's war secretary / $c Walter Stahr. 246 30 $a Lincoln's war secretary 250 $a First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Simon & Schuster, $c 2017. 300 $a xix, 743 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and some merely political. He was essential to the nation's survival, and Lincoln never wavered in his support for Stanton. As Lincoln lay dying, Stanton took over the government, informing the nation of the attacks on Lincoln and others, starting the investigation of the assassination, Under Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, Stanton insisted that the army had to remain in the South, to protect blacks and Unionists, while the president wanted to withdraw the troops. It was Johnson's ill-advised attempt to remove Stanton that led to the first impeachment of a president, an impeachment Johnson survived by a single vote. The New York diarist George Templeton Strong described Stanton after his death as 'honest, patriotic, able, indefatigable, warm-hearted, unselfish, incorruptible, arbitrary, capricious, tyrannical, vindictive, hateful, and cruel." But Stanton was also Lincoln's "right-hand man," responsible with Lincoln and Grant for saving the Union. In this, the first full biography of Stanton in fifty years, Stahr restores this complicated American hero to his proper place in our national story."--Jacket. 505 0 $a "Dreams of future greatness" : 1814-1836 -- "Obstinate Democrat" : 1837-1847 -- "The blackest place" : 1847-1856 -- "Untiring industry" : 1857-1860 -- "Surrounded by secessionists" : 1860-1861 -- "Disgrace & disaster" : 1861-1862 -- "Put forth every energy" : January-March 1862 -- "The vilest man I ever knew" : April-June 1862 -- "Hours are precious" : July-December 1862 -- "Indomitable energy" : January-June 1863 -- "Too serious for jokes" : July-December 1863 -- "You cannot die better" : January-June 1864 -- "Tower of strength" : July-November 1864 -- "Gratitude to Almighty God" : November 1864-April 1865 -- "The stain of innocent blood" : April-July 1865 -- "A born tyrant" : 1865-1866 -- "Wily old minister" : 1866-1867 -- "Stand firm!" : 1867-1868 -- "Final charge" : 1868-1869 -- "Strangely blended". 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 600 10 $a Stanton, Edwin M. $q (Edwin McMasters), $d 1814-1869. 610 10 $a United States. $b War Department $v Biography. 600 10 $a Lincoln, Abraham, $d 1809-1865 $x Friends and associates. 650 0 $a Cabinet officers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Statesmen $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $v Biography. 650 0 $a Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) $v Biography. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1861-1865. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1865-1869. 710 2 $a Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) $5 MsSM 776 08 $i Online version: $a Stahr, Walter, author. $t Stanton $d New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017 $z 9781476739328 880 4 $6 264-00 $c �20 941 $a 15 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409030116.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305043737.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019024006.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012023327.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331013130.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20230214010840.0 952 $l GMPD771 $d 20230210020832.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630014354.0 952 $l YAPC771 $d 20211123010557.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006110619.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20180313011912.0 952 $l FJPC224 $d 20180116093942.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20171229010448.0 952 $l ESPD725 $d 20171103013331.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20170913010210.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EE26FD16939111E7A673E95E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search