English | ASIN: B0999QLVKH | 2022 | 27 hours and 27 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 754 MB
From an acclaimed New York Times best-selling biographer, a timely reassessment of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable secretary of the Treasury. Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln's for the Republican nomination in 1860 - but there would not have been a national Republican Party, and Lincoln could not have won the presidency, were it not for the vital groundwork Chase laid over the previous two decades. Starting in the early 1840s, long before Lincoln was speaking out against slavery, Chase was forming and leading antislavery parties. He represented fugitive slaves so often in his law practice that he was known as the attorney general for runaway negroes, and he furthered his reputation as an outspoken federal senator and progressive governor of Ohio. Drawing on previously overlooked sources, Walter Stahr sheds new light on a complex and fascinating political figure, as well as on the pivotal events of the Civil War and its aftermath.