Abraham Lincoln : : A Press Portrait / / Herbert Mitgang.

This striking portrait of Abraham Lincoln found in this book is drawn entirely from the writing of his contemporaries and extends from his political beginnings in Springfield to his assassination. It reveals a more severely beleaguered, less godlike, and finally a richer Lincoln than has come throug...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2023]
©2000
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:The North's Civil War
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Physical Description:1 online resource (519 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION TO THE 2000 EDITION
  • SOURCES AND PUBLICATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 THE YOUNG LINCOLN MARCH 1832-AUGUST 1846
  • 2 CONGRESSMAN LINCOLN AUGUST 1846-OCTOBER 1854
  • 3 THE GREAT DEBATER OCTOBER 1854-NOVEMBER 185
  • 4 A NATIONAL MAN NOVEMBER 1858-MAY 1860
  • 5 LINCOLN FOR PRESIDENT MAY 1860-MARCH 1861
  • 6 PRESIDENT AT WAR MARCH 1861-APRIL 1862
  • 7 THE EMANCIPATOR APRIL 1862-JANUARY 1863
  • 8 COMMANDER IN CHIEF JANUARY 1863-JUNE 1864
  • 9 THE SECOND TERM JUNE 1864-APRIL 14, 1865
  • 10 AS THEY SAW HIM APRIL 15-MAY 1865
  • INDEX