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A secession crisis enigma William Henry Hurlbert and "The diary of a public man" /

Main Author: Crofts, Daniel W.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2010.
Subjects:
Hurlbert, William Henry, > 1827-1895.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Secession > History > United States
Diaries > Authorship
Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) > Siege, 1861
United States > Politics and government > 1857-1861
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865
United States > Historiography
United States > History
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10408463
Table of Contents:
  • 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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