Crofts, Daniel W.

A secession crisis enigma William Henry Hurlbert and "The diary of a public man" / [electronic resource] : Daniel W. Crofts. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2010. - 292 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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."


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2013.
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Hurlbert, William Henry, 1827-1895.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.


Diary of a public man.


Secession--History--United States--Sources.
Diaries--Authorship--Case studies.


Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)--Siege, 1861--Sources.
United States--Politics and government--1857-1861--Sources.
United States--Politics and government--1861-1865--Sources.
United States--Historiography--Miscellanea.
United States--History--Errors, inventions, etc.


Electronic books.

E440.5 / .C94 2010eb

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