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""An intimate portrait of Lincoln, so well-drawn that he seems to come alive on the page."" --Charleston Post & Courier Lincoln's Men by Daniel Mark Epstein offers a fascinating close-up view of the Abraham Lincoln White House through the eyes of Lincoln's three personal secretaries: John Nicolay, William Stoddard, and John Hay. Like Doris Kearns Goodwin's monumental New York Times bestseller, Team of Rivals, Epstein's Lincoln's Men sheds a new light on the 16th U.S. president--his brilliance and vision in a time of national turmoil and Civil War--by focusing on his relationships with the men who worked closely by his side. USA Today writes, ""This is not your typical work of history. Epstein, a poet, employs a dreamy, novelistic tone in describing these young men and their tormented boss.""

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This is not your typical work of history. Epstein, a poet, employs a dreamy, novelistic tone in describing these young men and their tormented boss. --USA Today Daniel Mark Epstein's LINCOLN'S MEN is no book of dry facts and figures. Instead, it is an intimate portrait of Lincoln, so well-drawn that he seems to come alive on the page. --Charleston Post & Courier Epstein brings something of an outsider's perspective to the hothouse world of Lincoln scholarship. --New York Times Book Review Sheds light on the remarkable young men who served at Lincoln's side. --Washington Times Captures the lives of Lincoln's secretaries --BookPage Lincoln, like most presidents, worked long hours. Really, really long hours. So it makes sense the folks who knew him best--and who offer possibly the freshest perspective on his well-documented life--were the guys he worked with every day of his presidency. --Chicago Tribune A fresh view. --Albuquerque Journal An insider's view of the [Lincoln] presidency...Nicolay and Hay wrote the diaries Lincoln never did, witnessing key moments from enviable vantage points. --Courier-Journal Working at close quarters with Lincoln at the White House was an education in itself, as Daniel Mark Epstein observes --Wall Street Journal

"""Daniel Mark Epstein's LINCOLN'S MEN is no book of dry facts and figures. Instead, it is an intimate portrait of Lincoln, so well-drawn that he seems to come alive on the page."" -- Charleston Post & Courier ""Epstein brings something of an outsider's perspective to the hothouse world of Lincoln scholarship."" -- New York Times Book Review Working at close quarters with Lincoln at the White House was an education in itself, as Daniel Mark Epstein observes"" -- Wall Street Journal ""Sheds light on the remarkable young men who served at Lincoln's side."" -- Washington Times ""Lincoln, like most presidents, worked long hours. Really, really long hours. So it makes sense the folks who knew him best--and who offer possibly the freshest perspective on his well-documented life--were the guys he worked with every day of his presidency."" -- Chicago Tribune ""This is not your typical work of history. Epstein, a poet, employs a dreamy, novelistic tone in describing these young men and their tormented boss."" -- USA Today ""A fresh view."" -- Albuquerque Journal ""Captures the lives of Lincoln's secretaries"" -- BookPage ""An insider's view of the [Lincoln] presidency...Nicolay and Hay wrote the diaries Lincoln never did, witnessing key moments from enviable vantage points."" -- Courier-Journal"

An insider's view of the [Lincoln] presidency...Nicolay and Hay wrote the diaries Lincoln never did, witnessing key moments from enviable vantage points. --Courier-Journal

Lincoln, like most presidents, worked long hours. Really, really long hours. So it makes sense the folks who knew him best-and who offer possibly the freshest perspective on his well-documented life-were the guys he worked with every day of his presidency. -- Chicago Tribune

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Daniel Mark Epstein has written more than fifteen books of poetry, biography, and history, including the award-winning Lincoln and Whitman and The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage, named one of the top ten books of the year by the Wall Street Journal and Chicago Sun-Times.

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