Author: Abraham Lincoln
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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The collected letters, speeches, etc. written by Abraham Lincoln.

Author: Abraham Lincoln
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Christi E. Parker
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 9780743989169
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Abraham Lincoln is often considered one of the greatest American presidents. Readers will discover the incredible things Lincoln accomplished during his time as president and the impact he made on slavery, the Civil War, and the country. The easy to read text and enlightening facts highlight such aspects of Lincoln's presidency as the Emanicpation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg, and how the popular and electoral votes led to his nomination. Detailed images and illustrations show readers real examples of documents and photos of Ford's Theater, where John Wilkes Booth committed Lincoln's assassination. Readers will feel engaged from cover to cover!

Author: Abraham Lincoln
Publisher:
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Author: Abraham Lincoln
Publisher:
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Author: Abraham Lincoln
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553807420
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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A collection of writings includes images of a variety of handwritten speeches, letters, and childhood notebooks, accompanied by commentary by James M. McPherson, Ken Burns, Doris Kearns Goodwin, John Updike, Toni Morrison, and other notables.

Author: Sidney Blumenthal
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476777314
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 784

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Lincoln’s incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed in this “compelling, original, and elegantly written” (Michael Beschloss, New York Times bestselling author) third volume of the “magisterial” (The New York Times Book Review) Political Life of Abraham Lincoln series, following A Self-Made Man and Wrestling with His Angel. After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue in the country, Stephen Douglas, in the debates for a senate seat. He sidelines the frontrunner William Seward, a former governor and senator for New York, to cinch the new Republican Party’s nomination. All the Powers of Earth is the political story of all time. Lincoln achieves the presidency by force of strategy, of political savvy and determination. This is Abraham Lincoln, who indisputably becomes the greatest president and moral leader in the nation’s history. But he must first build a new political party, brilliantly state the anti-slavery case and overcome shattering defeat to win the presidency. In the years of civil war to follow, he will show mightily that the nation was right to bet on him. He was its preserver, a politician of moral integrity. All the Powers of Earth is “as essential as any political biography is likely to be” and Sidney Bluementhal is “the definitive chronicler of Lincoln’s political career” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547385625
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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A clear-sighted, carefully researched account of two surprisingly parallel lives and how they intersected at a critical moment in U.S. history.

Author: Karen B. Winnick
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1563978059
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Abraham Lincoln was the first president of the United States to wear a beard. What gave him the idea to grow whiskers may have been a letter he received from an eleven-year-old girl named Grace Bedell. Charmingly told by Karen B. Winnick and illustrated with rich oil paintings that capture the look and feel of nineteenth-century America, here is the true story of the girl whose letter helped to make Abraham Lincoln's face one of the most famous in American history.

Author: Gore Vidal
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307784231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 673

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Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., Empire, and Hollywood. It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him. During the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation. Isolated in a ramshackle White House in the center of a proslavery city, Lincoln presides over a fragmenting government as Lee's armies beat at the gates. In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions and intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones and his rivals. The cast of characters is almost Dickensian: politicians, generals, White House aides, newspapermen, Northern and Southern conspirators, amiably evil bankers, and a wife slowly going mad. Vidal's portrait of the president is at once intimate and monumental, stark and complex, drawn with the wit, grace, and authority of one of the great historical novelists. With a new Introduction by the author.