Reviews
"This is one of the most significant primary sources . . . dealing with Abraham Lincoln. Hay was intimately involved in many of the events of the Lincoln administration and the president treated him almost like a son. . . . No serious study of Lincoln can ignore Hay."-Thomas R. Turner, author ofBeware the People Weeping: Public Opinion and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, " John Hay' s sharp eye, facile pen, and luminous wit made him an impressive correspondent at any period of his life but especially so when he lived intimately in President Abraham Lincoln' s White House. Every scrap of Hay' s writing during the Civil War, whether unbuttoned or official, is invaluable to understanding a tumultuous period, which Hay observed from its very center." -- John Y. Simon, editor, "The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant", "This is one of the most significant primary sources . . . dealing with Abraham Lincoln. Hay was intimately involved in many of the events of the Lincoln administration and the president treated him almost like a son. . . . No serious study of Lincoln can ignore Hay."-- Thomas R. Turner , author of Beware the People Weeping: Public Opinion and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, " This is one of the most significant primary sources . . . dealing with Abraham Lincoln. Hay was intimately involved in many of the events of the Lincoln administration and the president treated him almost like a son. . . . No serious study of Lincoln can ignore Hay." -- Thomas R. Turner, author of" Beware the People Weeping: Public Opinion and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln", "John Hay's sharp eye, facile pen, and luminous wit made him an impressive correspondent at any period of his life but especially so when he lived intimately in President Abraham Lincoln's White House. Every scrap of Hay's writing during the Civil War, whether unbuttoned or official, is invaluable to understanding a tumultuous period, which Hay observed from its very center."-- John Y. Simon , editor, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, John Hay's sharp eye, facile pen, and luminous wit made him an impressive correspondent at any period of his life but especially so when he lived intimately in President Abraham Lincoln's White House. Every scrap of Hay's writing during the Civil War, whether unbuttoned or official, is invaluable to understanding a tumultuous period, which Hay observed from its very center."—John Y. Simon, editor,The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, "This is one of the most significant primary sources . . . dealing with Abraham Lincoln. Hay was intimately involved in many of the events of the Lincoln administration and the president treated him almost like a son. . . . No serious study of Lincoln can ignore Hay."-- Thomas R. Turner , author of Beware the People Weeping: Public Opinion and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln "John Hay's sharp eye, facile pen, and luminous wit made him an impressive correspondent at any period of his life but especially so when he lived intimately in President Abraham Lincoln's White House. Every scrap of Hay's writing during the Civil War, whether unbuttoned or official, is invaluable to understanding a tumultuous period, which Hay observed from its very center."-- John Y. Simon , editor, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, This is one of the most significant primary sources . . . dealing with Abraham Lincoln. Hay was intimately involved in many of the events of the Lincoln administration and the president treated him almost like a son. . . . No serious study of Lincoln can ignore Hay."—Thomas R. Turner, author ofBeware the People Weeping: Public Opinion and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
