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Lincoln's Journalist: John Hay's Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860-1864

Lincoln's Journalist: John Hay's Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860-1864


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In the Civil War White House, John Hay became the ultimate insider, the man who had the president's ear. ""Only an extremely small number of persons ever saw Abraham Lincoln both day and night in public as well as private settings from 1860 to 1864,"" notes Wayne C. Temple, chief deputy director, Illinois State Archives. ""And only one of them had the literary flair of John Milton Hay."" The most privileged of reporters, Hay sent out dispatches and editorials that shed direct as well as indirect light on Lincoln. With ample access to the president, Hay was in a position to report his words and deeds as well as to offer opinions that may have reflected Lincoln's own views. Indeed, Burlingame suggests that Lincoln influenced Hay to write and place the articles in northern newspapers. Burlingame takes great pains to establish authorship of the items reproduced here. He convincingly demonstrates that the essays and letters written for the ""Providence"" Journal, the ""Springfield Illinois State"" Journal, and the ""St. Louis Missouri Democrat"" under the pseudonym ""Ecarte"" are the work of Hay. Additionally he finds much circumstantial and stylistic evidence that Hay wrote as ""our special correspondent"" for the ""Washington World"" and for the ""St. Louis Missouri Republican"". Easily identifiable, Hay's style was ""marked by long sentences, baroque syntactical architecture, immense vocabulary, verbal pyrotechnics, cocksure tone (combining acid contempt and extravagant praise), offbeat adverbs, and scornful adjectives.

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Michael Burlingame, Sadowski Professor of History Emeritus at Connecticut College

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"A marvelous work [that] will be heartily welcomed by all those who fancy the Civil War era, those who research and write in this field of study, or those who merely collect important pieces on the Civil War or Lincolniana." - Wayne C. Temple, Chief Deputy Director, Illinois State Archives "John Hay may not be the most famous presidential secretary in American history.... But he surely is the best writer and most incisive observer among them, and that alone makes his newspaper dispatches worth reading. Michael Burlingame deserves credit for making this possible." - Jean Harvey Baker, H-Net Reviews "Burlingame has rescued from obscurity some remarkable, even brilliant, journalistic pieces.... he warrants three cheers." - Richard Carwardine, Times Literary Supplement"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780809327126
  • Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press
  • Height: 228 mm
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: John Hay's Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860-1864
  • Width: 154 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0809327120
  • Publisher Date: 09 Aug 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 333 gr


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