Union Portraits (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

William T. Sherman, Joseph Hooker, George McClellan, William Seward, Charles Sumner, and others come to life in these1914-1916 psychological portraits. He wrote: “From the complex of fleeting experiences that make up the total of man’s or woman’s life [I or the author] endeavors to extricate those permanent habits of thought and action which constitute what we call character....”