Lincoln's Diplomacy

[L Verge]

Thanks for the recommendation of two recent books on this subject. Since I am not well-versed in Lincoln politics, I have never read deeply into the diplomacy issue. I first started paying attention about two years ago when approached for help by a Dr. David Perry, who was finishing a book on the subject entitled American Braggadocio. His point was that both Lincoln and Seward were neophytes in the foreign relations department at the beginning of the war.