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Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
vii, 120 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., col. maps ; 27 cm.
Description
"...This book offers readers a unique look at the events that led to the Emancipation Proclamation. Filled with little-known facts and fascinating details, it includes excerpts from historical sources, archival images, and new research that debunks myths about the Emancipation Proclamation and its causes."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), portrait, photographs ; 20 cm
Description
Follows Abraham Lincoln from his childhood to the presidency, showing how he spoke up about fairness and eventually led the country to abolish slavery.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
448 pages 24 cm.
Description
"In Ways and Means, journalist Roger Lowenstein reveals the unlikely story of how Abraham Lincoln used the urgency of financing the Civil War to transform a union of states into one united nation. Through a financial lens, he explores how this second American revolution, led by Lincoln, his cabinet, and his congress, changed the direction of the country"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xv, 329 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Description
Evaluates Lincoln's talents as a commander in chief in spite of limited military experience, tracing the ways in which he worked with, or against, his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and reshape the presidential role.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxix, 733 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Examines Abraham Lincoln's relationship with the press, arguing that he used such intimidation and manipulation techniques as closing down dissenting newspapers, pampering favoring newspaper men, and physically moving official telegraph lines.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
ix, 497 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world--and in the nineteenth century, a great man held that office. Lincoln scholar Miller's new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office, analyzing the commander in chief who coped with the profound moral dilemmas of America's bloodiest war. In this sequel to Lincoln's Virtues Miller completes his 'ethical biography,' showing the inexperienced backcountry...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
viii, 703 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
From one of our most acclaimed new biographers--the first full life of the leader of Lincoln's "Team of Rivals"--William Henry Seward, one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century.
17) Abraham Lincoln
Author
Publisher
Times Books/Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
184 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Abraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president--the pillar of strength whose words bound up the nation's wounds. His presidency is the hinge on which American history pivots, the time when the young republic collapsed of its own contradictions and a new birth of freedom, sanctified by blood, created the United States we know today. His story has been told many times, but never by a man who himself sought the office...
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Description
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound upwith money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar...
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Description
This multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. Historian Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius, as the one-term congressman rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals to become president. When Lincoln emerged as the victor at the Republican National Convention, his rivals were dismayed. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"In A Just and Generous Nation, the eminent historian Harold Holzer and the noted economist Norton Garfinkle present a groundbreaking new account of the beliefs that inspired our sixteenth president to go to war when the Southern states seceded from the Union. Rather than a commitment to eradicating slavery or a defense of the Union, they argue, Lincoln's guiding principle was the defense of equal economic opportunity. Lincoln firmly believed that...
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