Author: Republican Party (Ill.). Convention
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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

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

Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Category : Campaign debates
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Guy C. Fraker
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809332027
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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Univeristy Press Books for Public and Secondary Schools 2013 edition Superior Achievement by the Illinois State Historical Society, 2013 Throughout his twenty-three-year legal career, Abraham Lincoln spent nearly as much time on the road as an attorney for the Eighth Judicial Circuit as he did in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois. Yet most historians gloss over the time and instead have Lincoln emerge fully formed as a skillful politician in 1858. In this innovative volume, Guy C. Fraker provides the first-ever study of Lincoln’s professional and personal home away from home and demonstrates how the Eighth Judicial Circuit and its people propelled Lincoln to the presidency. Each spring and fall, Lincoln traveled to as many as fourteen county seats in the Eighth Judicial Circuit to appear in consecutive court sessions over a ten- to twelve-week period. Fraker describes the people and counties that Lincoln encountered, discusses key cases Lincoln handled, and introduces the important friends he made, friends who eventually formed the team that executed Lincoln’s nomination strategy at the Chicago Republican Convention in 1860 and won him the presidential nomination. As Fraker shows, the Eighth Judicial Circuit provided the perfect setting for the growth and ascension of Lincoln. A complete portrait of the sixteenth president depends on a full understanding of his experience on the circuit, and Lincoln’s Ladder to the Presidency provides that understanding as well as a fresh perspective on the much-studied figure, thus deepening our understanding of the roots of his political influence and acumen.

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

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Author: Eric Foner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393306125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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In conjunction with a ten-year exhibit at the Chicago Historical Society, beginning January 1990.

Author: Daniel Fish
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Author: Eric Foner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039308082X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness emerges from his capacity for moral and political growth.

Author: Illinois. Constitutional Convention
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 1030

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