The Leatherby Libraries celebrates the publication of Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary featuring Author Walter Stahr on Thursday, September 7, 2017.

6:00 – 7:00pm - Book Signing and Reception

Recent Reviews:
"Moving swiftly across the enormous landscape of Stanton's life and times, Stahr provides a narrative that is both readily accessible and compelling." NPR.org. 

"This exhaustively researched, well-paced book should take its place as the new, standard biography of the ill-tempered man who helped save the Union. It is fair, judicious, authoritative, and comprehensive." Wall Street Journal.

"There are many biographies of Stanton, but Stahr's will stand out as one of the finest and most detailed. This is a book for both scholars of Civil War history and general readers who have an interest in that period." Washington Independent Review of Books.

"A judiciously sympathetic treatment" New York Times.

About the Author:

Walter Stahr is a former lawyer and is the author of biographies of John Jay, William Henry Seward, and Edwin Stanton. He is a former presidential fellow at Chapman University and did some research and early chapters of this book during the school year that he was teaching at Chapman over the 2014-15 school year.

About the Book: Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary tells the story of Abraham Lincoln’s indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union. Walter Stahr’s essential book is the first major biography of Stanton in fifty years, restoring this underexplored figure to his proper place in American history.