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22) Abraham Lincoln
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xi, 79 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson provides an ideal short account of Lincoln--a compelling biography of a man of humble origins who preserved our nation during its greatest catastrophe and ended the scourge of slavery.
Author
Series
Time twisters volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
147 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Abby and her stepbrother, Doc, must persuade Abraham Lincoln to play his part in history after one too many comments about history being boring cause him to go on strike.
Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fonda stars as the young lawyer who put his integrity and humor to work for his fellow man.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xi, 480 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"In this eye-opening book, Elizabeth Brown Pryor examines six intriguing, mostly unknown encounters that Abraham Lincoln had with his constituents. Taken together, they reveal his character and opinions in unexpected ways, illustrating his difficulties in managing a republic and creating a presidency. Pryor probes both the political demons that Lincoln battled in his ambitious exercise of power and the demons that arose from the very nature of democracy...
28) Abraham Lincoln
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
117 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Presents a non-fiction companion to the book "Abe Lincoln At Last!," discussing what it was like to grow up in a log cabin and what Lincoln's family life was like, and describes how he became the sixteenth president of the United States.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on President Lincoln Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration. The...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
27 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Description
Introduces the life of the sixteenth president, revealing his humble origins and his accomplishments as commander-in-chief, while discussing his advocacy of civil rights, freedom, and unity.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxi, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Throughout his life, Lincoln fought with God. In his early years in Illinois, he rejected even the existence of God and became the village atheist. In time, this changed but still he wrestled with the truth of the Bible, preachers, doctrines, the will of God, the providence of God, and then, finally, God's purposes in the Civil War. Still, on the day he was shot, Lincoln said he longed to go to Jerusalem to walk in the Savior's steps. What had happened?...
Author
Formats
Description
Wanting to know about the real man behind the sixteenth president's legendary character, a little girl learns about Lincoln's beliefs regarding universal freedom as well as lesser-known aspects of his life, from his love of Mozart and his wife's vanilla cake to his pet dog and the way he kept notes in his stovepipe hat.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
352 pages
Description
"The first full-color facsimile edition of Lincoln's private notes, Abraham Lincoln's Diary is a deluxe collection of some of his most revelatory private writings. An essential archive, here presented exactly as Lincoln wrote them on scraps of paper, these "notes to self" appear alongside original, contextualizing essays by presidential biographer Ronald C. White. A deeply private man, closed off to even those who worked closely with him, Lincoln...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"The novel opens in 1832 in the Black Hawk War, when Micajah (Cage) Weatherby--an imaginary character--and Lincoln meet. Afterwards Cage musters out to Springfield, Illinois, where he becomes part of the group of ambitious young men, which includes Lincoln, in this frontier town on the make. And it is through Cage that we come to know his friend Lincoln in his twenties and early thirties, the Lincoln who is already a circuit-riding lawyer and a member...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds, Mills and Kane
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (47 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Description
"A man of the soil, Abraham Lincoln cleared many paths throughout his lifetime, determined to make life easier for others. As a boy, Abraham Lincoln helped his family break through the wilderness and struggle on their frontier farm. As a young man, Abraham Lincoln entered politics on the American prairie and campaigned for better schools and better roads. As president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln cleared paths for better farming, transportation,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
Showing intelligence beyond society's expectations, fourteen-year-old Ana Ferreira is offered a job in the Lincoln household assisting Mary Lincoln with their boys and with the hosting duties borne by the wife of a rising political star. Ana bears witness to the evolution of Lincoln's views on equality and the Union and observes in full complexity the psyche and pain of his bold, polarizing wife, Mary. Yet, alongside her dearest friend in the Black...
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