Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival (Walter Stahr - LP) Section- African American History as well as an index

as well as an index of people and places mentioned in the letters

Walter Stahr’s essential book is the first major biography of Stanton in fifty years

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Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival (Walter Stahr - LP) Section- African American History as well as an indexSalmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival by Walter Stahr Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincolns for the Republican nomination in 1860but there would not have been a national Republican Party, and Lincoln could not have won the presidency, were it not for the vital groundwork Chase laid over the previous two decades. Starting in the early 1840s, long before Lincoln was speaking out against slavery, Chase was forming and leading