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"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...
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Historian Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius, as the one-term congressman rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals to become president. On May 18, 1860, everyone waited for the results from the Republican National Convention. Lincoln won, Goodwin demonstrates, because of his extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men. It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents...
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2021.
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English
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"Upon his election as President of the troubled United States, Abraham Lincoln faced a dilemma. He knew it was time for slavery to go, but how fast could the country change without being torn apart? Many abolitionists wanted Lincoln to move quickly, overturning the founding documents along the way. But Lincoln believed there was a way to extend equality to all while keeping and living up to the Constitution that he loved so much-if only he could buy...
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Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"A novel and brilliant look at how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership: acclaimed historian Michael J. Gerhardt, who appeared during the impeachment proceedings of President Trump, reveals how a group of five men mentored an obscure lawyer with no executive experience to become American's greatest leader"--
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Collins
Pub. Date
©2009
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English
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"Lincoln's Men is the first narrative protrait of the men who served as Lincoln's secretaries during the Civil War: Nicolay, Hay, and Stoddard. Each of the three had his influence upon Lincoln, and Lincoln had an enorimous impact upon them. Daniel Mark Epstein captures the drama in each life: we see Nicolay, balancing his obligations to Lincoln with a long-distant engagement to his childhood sweetheart; Hay, the poet/amanuensis, in love with the famous...
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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"In The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, completed just weeks before he died, C.A. Tripp offers a full examination of Lincoln's inner life and relationships that, as Dr. Jean Baker argues in the Introduction, "will define the issue for years to come." Throughout this work, new details are revealed about Lincoln's relations with a number of men. Long-standing myths are debunked convincingly - in particular, the myth that Lincoln's one true love was...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political acumen of Abraham Lincoln via sixteen encounters before and during his presidency, bringing to light not only the strategy of a great politician who inherited a country divided, but lessons for our own disorderly present. In 1855, as the United States found itself at odds over the issue of slavery, then lawyer Abraham Lincoln composed a note on the...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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When John Hay died in 1905, he was one of the most famous men in the world and one of the most highly regarded. Hay enjoyed remarkable success in public and private life: He was Abraham Lincoln's private secretary during the Civil War, and thereafter he was a popular poet, novelist, newspaper, editor, highly esteemed historian and biographer, diplomat, businessman, and secretary of state until his death. Author Philip McFarland presents both the...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and some merely political. He was essential to the nation's...
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The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's Secretary of War during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of Stanton in more than fifty years, William Marvel offers a detailed reexamination of Stanton's life, career, and legacy. Marvel argues that while Stanton was a...
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