While at Harvard Law School, WALTER STAHR was executive editor-in chief of the Harvard Environmental Law Review. For twenty-five years, he practiced law, with periods in the Far East and in Washington. His first love had long been Revolutionary War and Civil War history, and while working in Hong Kong in the late '90s he began researching his biography, John Jay: Founding Father, which was published in 2005. His second book, Seward: Lincoln's Indispensible Man published in 2012, sheds new light on William Henry Seward, Secretary of State for President Lincoln and one of the most fascinating and significant political figures of the nineteenth century. These days, Mr. Stahr and his wife divide their time between southern New Hampshire and northern Virginia.