Archive for September 2012
Reviews/Events
My Seward book has now been reviewed in the New Yorker and in the Economist. The New Yorker review is not the customary few sentences; it is several pages, a long essay about Seward and his role in American history. The reviewer said some very nice things: the book is “masterly,” a “subtle portrait of…
Read MoreSeward and Auburn
This is roughly what I said on September 18 about Seward and Auburn. I do not feel the need, with this audience, to answer the question I often have to answer: who was William Henry Seward? Instead I propose to talk about Seward and Auburn: about why he came to live here, why he spent…
Read MoreSeward, the South, and the Constitution
This is roughly what I said on September 17, at Mississippi State, about Seward and the South and the Constitution:. I have two topics today: Seward’s relations with the South and his views on and role in the Constitution. The two topics are closely related, so it is appropriate that I should be here, in…
Read MoreLaunch
I am back in Exeter after two book events: one at Mississippi State and one in Auburn NY. I was the Constitution Day speaker in Mississippi, and so talked about Seward, the South, and the Constitution. There was a large audience, more than a hundred, mainly students. They listened attentively and had good questions. It…
Read MoreSeward Reviews
The first publication reviews of Seward have appeared. They are favorable; indeed the review in the Dallas Morning News could be described as glowing. It ends with the following: “Writing like that makes history come alive: a researcher digging into the mines of the past and quarrying new insight on an old story. Seward:…
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