Lincoln And The Civil War In the Diaries and Letters of John Hay [Paperback]

Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay

A unique document by an extraordinary man about one of the giants of American history, this edition features a new foreword by Henry Steele Commager, who sheds new light on the Lincoln-Hay relationship.
John Milton Hay(1838-1905) was an American statesman and official whose career in government spanned nearly half a century. He started as a private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln and later became Secretary of State for William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.