Lincoln's Men: The President and His Private Secretaries

Lincoln's Men is the first narrative portrait of the three young men who served as Lincoln's secretaries during the Civil War. John Nicolay and John Hay lived in the White House, across the hall from the president's office, and they and William Stoddard spent more time with Lincoln than anyone else outside his immediate family.

Lincoln used these three intelligent, articulate young men as a sounding board; they were the first audience for much of his writing from the period. From their uniqu...