He truly mourns his young wife when she dies in childbirth almost 16 years go by before he remarries, this time to a 26-year-old heiress who provides emotional and financial support on his ultimate ascent to power. Biographer William Marvel spares no details as he tracks the short, asthmatic lawyer from Steubenville, Ohio to the corridors of the White House.Įn route, Stanton rises from obscurity, works his way through law school, marries, fathers two children, and becomes active in local politics. Lincoln’s Autocrat shows that both factions have enough ammunition to ignite a second Civil War. To his enemies, however, he was a treacherous schemer, graceless in defeat and malign in victory. postage stamps-with two exceptions, Benjamin Franklin and Stanton). Lincoln’s Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton by William Marvel (University of North Carolina Press, 611 pp., $35)Īccording to his allies, Edwin Stanton was a gifted manager and a true patriot (until the late nineteenth century, only presidents appeared on U.S.
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