‘Political cesspool’: Lincoln, Davis and a battle with echoes for the time of Trump
At a time of division in the US, biographer Nigel Hamilton returns to a similarly difficult moment to tell the story of a nation’s fate hanging in the balance
Nigel Hamilton is a bestselling biographer, his major subjects including John F Kennedy, Franklin D Roosevelt and Bill Clinton. His new book, Lincoln vs Davis: The War of the Presidents, was published on Tuesday, the US presidential election day when Kamala Harris faced Donald Trump.
Late in his book, Hamilton notes a harsh 1862 verdict on Washington life by Adam Gurowski, a Polish emigre in the state department, anguished words that seem relevant and pungent today.
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