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Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image by Joshua Zeitz (review)

Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image by Joshua Zeitz... One wonders if what John Higham long ago identified as America’s post-1848, counterrevolutionary turn from “boundlessness to consolida- tion,” and the subsequent convergence of U.S. and British imperial and elite interests and outlooks, might provide the best and broadest expla- nation for Washington’s marginalization (Fenians said “betrayal”) of Irish nationalist aspirations. Would it be too cynical to suggest that the Irish were merely among the first of many colonized peoples to fall victim to the nascent “special relationship” between the old British and the rising American empires? Kerby A. Miller notes 1. John Higham, From Boundlessness to Consolidation: The Transformation of American Culture, 1848–1860 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: William L. Clements Library, 1969). kerby a . miller, Curators’ Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia, is the author most recently of Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration (Field Day Publications, 2008). Lincoln’s Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln’s Image. By Joshua Zeitz. (New York: Viking, 2014. Pp. 400. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $17.00.) The author of this engaging book is quite interesting himself. Joshua Zeitz was born and currently lives in New Jersey. He earned a B.A. from Swarthmore and an M.A. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press

Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image by Joshua Zeitz (review)

McColley, Robert
The Journal of the Civil War Era , Volume 8 (4) – Dec 3, 2018
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One wonders if what John Higham long ago identified as America’s post-1848, counterrevolutionary turn from “boundlessness to consolida- tion,” and the subsequent convergence of U.S. and British imperial and elite interests and outlooks, might provide the best and broadest expla- nation for Washington’s marginalization (Fenians said “betrayal”) of Irish nationalist aspirations. Would it be too cynical to suggest that the Irish were merely among the first of many colonized peoples to fall victim to the nascent “special relationship” between the old British and the rising American empires? Kerby A. Miller notes 1. John Higham, From Boundlessness to Consolidation: The Transformation of American Culture, 1848–1860 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: William L. Clements Library, 1969). kerby a . miller, Curators’ Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia, is the author most recently of Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration (Field Day Publications, 2008). Lincoln’s Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln’s Image. By Joshua Zeitz. (New York: Viking, 2014. Pp. 400. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $17.00.) The author of this engaging book is quite interesting himself. Joshua Zeitz was born and currently lives in New Jersey. He earned a B.A. from Swarthmore and an M.A.

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