Abraham Lincoln deals with foreign affairs : a diplomat in carpet slippers
On the eve of the American Civil War, the old predatory powers of Europe were waiting to capitalize on the split in the Union. President Lincoln had to prevent foreign governments from giving official recognition to the Confederacy. Jay Monaghan shows how the underestimated, "rustic" president dealt with diplomats both in this country and abroad -- and also with contentious politicians and cabinet members. - Back cover
xv, 505 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
9780803282315, 0803282311
36023997
Questions that would unavoidably come in due time
Men bred in courts accustomed to the world
Whom could he trust, if not the Secretary of State?
No lawyer and no statesman
Noisy jackasses
They're having fits in the White House tonight
Dictators and soldiers of fortune
The capture of Mason and Slidell
Give up the men!
Stone fleets and wooden nutmegs : January 1862
Cold, fever, and then delirium
Antietam : Lincoln faces the crisis
I am a slow walker but I never walk back
Lincoln's propaganda
A man whose nights are sleepless
Gettysburg : end of British enmity
Lincoln tells Europe
It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river
A joke worthy of Abraham Lincoln himself
Every gambler in the blue grass will recognize you
A ship sailing to an unknown shore
Epilogue : Silver face in the night
Originally published: Diplomat in carpet slippers. Bobbs-Merrill, Co., 1945