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Edwin Stanton was President Lincoln's indispensable man, says Walter Stahr, author of Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary.

In a 10-minute conversation with The Bookmonger, Stahr explains how Stanton helped the Union achieve victory, whether he was wrong to arrest draft dodgers and journalists, and why Stahr writes that he "was not a good man, but he was a great man." He also takes aim at the conspiracy theorists who claim that Stanton help plot Lincoln's murder.

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