This is a personal biography and not a political history. John Hay was an ideal letter writer, he recorded his impressions so freshly and so vividly that he never leaves us in doubt as to what he thought of persons, political affairs, or life's experiences. Contents: Beginnings; Brown University, Poet in Exile; First Months in the White House; War in Earnest; Errands North and South; Great Companion; Roving Diplomat: Paris, Vienna, Spain; Washington during Reconstruction; Journalism; Authorship; Friendship; Politics. Illustrated.
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New York, John Hay, Whitelaw Reid, United States, White House, Secretary of State, Abraham Lincoln, Brown University, Jim Bludso, Little Breeches, Castilian Days, Miss Perry, President Lincoln, Euclid Avenue, New England, Albert Rhodes, Horace Greeley, Rhode Island, Secretary of Legation, Army of the Potomac, Atlantic Monthly, Charles Hay, General Dix, General Garfield, John Bigelow New!
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- Castilian Days by John Hay on 8 pages
- Pike County Ballads by John Hay on 4 pages
- Abraham Lincoln (The Great Americans Series) by Jean F. Blashfield in Front Matter, and page 82
- King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 300
- The life and times of Samuel Bowles by George Spring Merriam on page 134
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