Edwin Stanton

[Gene C]

Just finished "Stanton, the Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War" by Benjamin Thomas and Harold Hyman.
Book was over 600 pages. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Written over 50 years ago, a very well researched book with lots of footnotes. I bought it used on Amazon.

There is so much in this book it is almost overwhelming. It's fairly easy to read. I recommend it to anyone who is seriously
interested in what was going on politically in Lincoln's and Johnson's administration. You'll get a different perspective and come away with greater respect for Lincoln and Stanton, and the difficulties and pressures they operated under.