{"product_id":"lincolns-white-house-secretary-the-adventurous-life-of-william-ostoddard-9780809327539","title":"Lincoln's White House Secretary: The Adventurous Life of William O.Stoddard","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Osborn Stoddard  Lincolns third secretary who worked alongside John G. Nicolay and John Hay in the White House from 1861 to 1865  completed his autobiography in 1907  one of more than one hundred books he wrote. An abridged version was published by his son in 1955 as Lincolns Third Secretary: The Memoirs of William O. Stoddard. In this new  edited version  Lincolns White House Secretary: The Adventurous Life of William O. Stoddard  Harold Holzer provides an introduction  afterword  and annotations and includes comments by Stoddards granddaughter  Eleanor Stoddard. The elegantly written volume gives readers a window into the politics  life  and culture of the mid-nineteenth century.  Stoddards bracing writing  eye for detail  and ear for conversation bring a novelistic excitement to a story of childhood observations  young friendships  hardscrabble frontier farming  early hints of the slavery crisis  the workings of the Lincoln administration  and the strange course of war and reunion in the southwest. More than a clerk  Stoddard was an adventurous explorer of American life  a farmer  editor  soldier  and politician.  Enhanced by seventeen illustrations  this narrative sympathetically draws the reader into the life and times of Lincolns third secretary  adding to our understanding of the events and the larger-than-life figures that shaped history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647274246197,"sku":"ByrdShop_0809327538","price":92.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780809327539.jpg?v=1781691409","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/lincolns-white-house-secretary-the-adventurous-life-of-william-ostoddard-9780809327539","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}