Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival
by Walter Stahr
832 pages
Simon & Schuster
Published: Feb 2022
Walter Stahr’s long-awaited biography of Salmon Chase was published recently and proves worth the wait. Stahr was a lawyer for two decades before embarking on a career as an author. His previous biographies also focus on early American political figures: John Jay, William Seward and Edwin Stanton.
Anyone who has read Doris Kearns Goodwin’s riveting biography of Abraham Lincoln is familiar with Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873). He was a passionate anti-slavery voice, a U.S. Senator, Governor of Ohio, helped establish the Republican Party, served as Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury, was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court…and was the inspiration behind a large piece of what is now J.P. Morgan Chase.
This author’s fondness – almost reverence – for Chase is obvious from the book’s first pages and is occasionally distracting…
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