A Secession Crisis Enigma : William Henry Hurlbert and "The Diary of a Public Man" /

The Diary of a Public Man, published anonymously in several installments in the North American Review in 1879, claimed to offer verbatim accounts of secret conversations with Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, and Stephen A. Douglasamong othersin the desperate weeks just before the start of the Civ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Crofts, Daniel W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865
Hurlbert, William Henry, > 1827-1895
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Hurlbert, William Henry, > 1827-1895.
Diary of a public man
Diary of a public man.
Secession
Politics and government.
Historiography
Diaries > Authorship
HISTORY.
Journaux intimes > Art d'ecrire > Études de cas.
Secession > États-Unis > Histoire > Sources.
Diaries > Authorship > Case studies.
Secession > United States > History > Sources.
United States
South Carolina > Charleston > Fort Sumter
South Carolina > Charleston.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1861-1865 > Sources.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1857-1861 > Sources.
United States > History > Errors, inventions, etc.
United States > Historiography > Miscellanea.
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865 > Sources.
United States > Politics and government > 1857-1861 > Sources.
Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) > Siege, 1861 > Sources.
Sources
Trivia and miscellanea.
History
Case studies
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Deciphering "The diary of a public man"
  • Proving who wrote the diary
  • Young Hurlbert
  • Hurlbert the journalist
  • Hurlbert and the secession crisis
  • A fiction nothing more nor less?
  • The Lincoln interviews
  • Hurlbert and Ward
  • Promoting the diary
  • Hurlbert and the world
  • Connecting past and present
  • Scandal and summation
  • Epilogue: "The diary of a public man" and the Lincoln legend
  • Appendix: the text of "The diary of a public man."

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