From one of our most acclaimed new biographers-- the first full life of the leader of Lincoln's "Team of Rivals"--William Henry Seward, one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century.

"Elements of a statesman" : 1801 to 1830 -- "Who is William H. Seward?" 1831-1838 -- "A higher standard of social perfection" : 1839-1842 -- "You and I can and must do it" : 1843 to 1849 -- "A higher law than the Constitution" : 1849-1854 -- "Foremost statesman of the whole north" : 1854-1856 -- "Irrepressible conflict" : 1857-1859 -- "Lincoln nominated third ballot" : 1860 -- "Save the Union in my own way" : November 1860 to March 1861 -- "I must do it" : March to April 1861 -- "Through the fires of Tophet" : 1861 -- "Remove him!" : 1862 -- "Ask not whether the enemy is near" : 1863 -- "Firm and hopeful" : 1864 -- "I am not dead" : 1865 -- "Political apostasy" : 1866 -- "Let us make the treaty tonight" : 1867 -- "I'll see you damned first" : 1868-69 -- "Nothing remained... but to keep in motion" : 1869-72.