TY - BOOK AU - Crofts,Daniel W. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - A secession crisis enigma: William Henry Hurlbert and "The diary of a public man" AV - E440.5 .C94 2010 U1 - 973.7/31 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Baton Rouge PB - Louisiana State University Press KW - Hurlbert, William Henry, KW - Lincoln, Abraham, KW - Diary of a public man KW - Secession KW - United States KW - History KW - Sources KW - Diaries KW - Authorship KW - Case studies KW - Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) KW - Siege, 1861 KW - Politics and government KW - 1857-1861 KW - 1861-1865 KW - Historiography KW - Miscellanea KW - Errors, inventions, etc KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Deciphering "The diary of a public man" -- Proving who wrote the diary -- Young Hurlbert -- Hurlbert the journalist -- Hurlbert and the secession crisis -- A fiction nothing more nor less? -- The Lincoln interviews -- Hurlbert and Ward -- Promoting the diary -- Hurlbert and the world -- Connecting past and present -- Scandal and summation -- Epilogue: "The diary of a public man" and the Lincoln legend -- Appendix: The text of "The diary of a public man."; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aitie/detail.action?docID=570397 ER -