From Kirkus Reviews: A friendly yet not uncritical biography of the secretary of state in the Lincoln and Andrew Johnson Cabinets. Taylor--who chronicled his father's life in General Maxwell Taylor (1987)- -offers neither much original scholarship nor a fresh approach, but...
The first biography of Abraham Lincoln's flamboyant secretary of state in more than 20 years, by a prize-winning biographer. Filled with colorful anecdotes, William Henry Seward is an evocative portrait of a complex, fascinating man, his place, and his times.