All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to

All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

If Henry James or Edith Wharton had written a novel describing the accomplished and glamorous life and times of John Hay, it would have been thought implausibleâ‚¬"a novelistâ‚¬s fancy. Nevertheless, John Taliaferroâ‚¬s brilliant biography captures the extraordinary life of Hay, one of the most amazing figures in American history, and restores him to his rightful place.

John Hay was both witness and author of many of the most significant chapters in American historyâ‚¬" 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. With All the Great Prizes, the first authoritative biography of Hay in eighty years, Taliaferro has turned the lens around, rendering a rich and fascinating portrait of this brilliant American and his many worlds.

Hayâ‚¬s friends are a whoâ‚¬s who of the era: Mark Twain, Horace Greeley, Henry Adams, Henry James, and 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 countryâ‚¬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.

Hayâ‚¬s peers esteemed him as â‚¬Å“a perfectly cut stoneâ‚¬Â and â‚¬Å“the greatest prime minister this republic has ever known.â‚¬Â 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 Hayâ‚¬s best friend, Henry Adams.

With this superb work, Taliaferro brings us an epic tale.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2013-05-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781416597308

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2013-05-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781416597308

All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

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