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Founders' son : a life of Abraham Lincoln / Richard Brookhiser.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780465032945
  • ISBN: 046503294X
  • Physical Description: xi, 347 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Basic Books, [2014]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-331) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1809-1830: youth -- George Washington and liberty -- 1830-1840: manhood -- Thomas Paine, laughter, and reason -- 1840-1852: maturity -- Henry Clay and the Fourth of July -- 1854: the repeal of the Missouri Compromise -- 1855-1858: running for senate -- 1859-1860: running for president -- Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. The towering genius (I) -- The election of 1860. The towering genius (II) -- 1861-1863: war, emancipation -- Preamble to the Constitution -- 1864-1865: war, death -- God the father -- 1865: victory. The towering genius (III) -- Epilogue: One old man.
Subject:
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
Genre:
Biographies.

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Sneads Ferry Branch Library BIO LINCOLN (Text) 36015001199039 Adult Biography Available -