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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Explores the psychology, character, and leadership of the sixteenth president as evidenced by six encounters with his constituents, from an awkward meeting with Army officers on the eve of the Civil War to a White House conversation with a fierce abolitionist.
"In this absorbing book, Elizabeth Brown Pryor offers new perspectives on our sixteenth president by examining six intriguing, mostly unknown encounters he had with his constituents. Taken...
2) Abraham Lincoln in private: what his most personal reflections tell us about our greatest president
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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 New York Times bestselling presidential biographer Ronald C. White. A deeply private man, closed off to even those who worked...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
Description
"A Lincoln authority plubs the mysteries in Lincoln's life and personality by restating the most dramatic and bitterly fought controversies scholars have had about his life and by weighing the evidence, notably about his married life, his religious views, his role in provoking (or not provoking) the Civil War, his ability as a military strategist." Pub W.
Author
Publisher
In association with National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"We grow up with stories of Abraham Lincoln splitting logs, reading by candlelight, standing tall in a stovepipe hat. But this volume takes us far beyond the well-known facts and fables, promising a deeper and broader journey to explore not only Lincoln's wisdom, integrity, and humor, but also his place in America and the world. In Abraham Lincoln's Extraordinary Era, hundreds of rare images, anecdotes, and discoveries reveal new truths about the...
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