GDG- Wedding of Kate Chase

[James Cameron]

<< The Seward and Blair women were interesting studies too.>>

Indeed.  I must also say that I found her treatment of William Seward to be 
one of the most pleasant surprises in the book.  He comes across as one of 
the most engaging characters of all.  No wonder Lincoln came to like him so 
much.

Salmon Chase, by comparison, comes off as elitist and humorless, a man who 
seemed to regard the Presidency as his by right, but fated to find it always 
just beyond his grasp.  It makes Kate Chase's devotion to his aspirations 
and her subservience of her interests to his advancement all the more 
tragic.

Jim Cameron