An associate of Abraham Lincoln offers an intimate view of the president s relations with military men and top politicians, placing particular emphasis on the election campaigns of 1860 and 1864.

A. K.McClure, a Republican powerbroker and later editor of the Philadelphia Times, reveals how Lincoln replaced Vice President Hannibal Hamlin with the southern Democrat Andrew Johnson on the 1864 ticket. According to McClure, Lincoln kept his hand hidden in order not to offend Hamlin and his New England supporters. In 1892, the publication of Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times caused an angry...