Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival

“Long viewed as either a pretentious thorn in Lincoln’s side or the beneficiary of Lincoln’s generosity, Salmon P. Chase has long deserved a full, fresh, fair reappraisal. With this sweeping, meticulously researched, and convincingly argued biography, Walter Stahr has produced just such a study.”
— Harold Holzer, Gilder Lehrman Prize-winning author of Lincoln and the Power of the Press