All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
by John Taliaferro.
Simon and Schuster,
673 pp., $35.00; $21.00 (paper)
Lincoln’s Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln’s Image
by Joshua Zeitz.
Penguin, 390 pp., $17.00 (paper)
The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism
by Mark Zwonitzer.
Algonquin, 583 pp., $35.00
John Hay, Friend of Giants: The Man and Life Connecting Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Henry James, and Theodore Roosevelt
by Philip McFarland.
Rowman and Littlefield,
366 pp., $27.00
During the winter of 1903, John Singer Sargent was invited to the White House to paint Theodore Roosevelt’s official portrait. Feeling like “a rabbit in the presence of a boa constrictor,” Sargent had the impatient president…
