All the great prizes : the life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

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Label

All the great prizes : the life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

Title remainder

the life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

Statement of responsibility

John Taliaferro

Creator

• Taliaferro, John, 1952-

Subject

• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Friends and associates
• Manchester City Library New Hampshire Room Collection
• Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
• Hay, John, 1838-1905
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
• United States -- Foreign relations -- 1865-1921

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

John Hay was both witness and author of many of the most significant chapters in American history--from the birth of the Republican Party, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War, to the prelude to the First World War. Much of what we know about Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt comes to us through the observations Hay made while private secretary to one and secretary of state to the other. Hay's friends included virtually every president, sovereign, author, artist, power broker, and robber baron of the Gilded Age. As an ambassador and statesman, he guided many of the country's major diplomatic initiatives at the turn of the twentieth century: the Open Door with China, the creation of the Panama Canal, the establishment of America as a world leader. But for all his poise and polish, he had his secrets. His marriage to one of the wealthiest women in the country did not prevent him from pursuing the Madame X of Washington society, whose other secret suitor was Hay's best friend, Henry Adams. Here is the epic tale of one of the most amazing figures in American history.--From publisher description

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 973.7092
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E664.H41

LC item number

T35 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography