Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War by Paul Kahan
English | July 1st, 2016 | ISBN: 1612348149 | 384 Pages | EPUB | 1.20 MB
From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln’s secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a founder of the Republican Party, Simon Cameron (1799–1889) was one of the nineteenth century’s most prominent political figures. In his wake, however, he left a series of questionable political and business dealings and, at the age of eighty, even a sex scandal.