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Genre/Form: | Biographies |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Living Lincoln. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1955 (OCoLC)563876263 |
Named Person: | Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Abraham Lincoln; Paul M Angle; Earl Schenck Miers |
ISBN: | 1566190436 9781566190435 |
OCLC Number: | 27839534 |
Notes: | Includes index. 1 93-7380. 2 93-7381. |
Description: | viii, 673 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | New Salem -- Early years in Springfield -- Prairie politics -- Congressman Lincoln -- Reflective years -- National emergence -- House divided -- "These poor tongues" -- Making of a candidate -- Republican nominee -- Period of waiting -- Irrepressible conflict -- from Belmont to second Manassas -- From Antietam to Vicksburg -- "The signs look better" -- "With malice toward none." |
Responsibility: | edited by Paul M. Angle and Earl Schenck Miers. |
Abstract:
"[The authors] have selected the best of Lincoln's writings on himself and the tremendous issues of his day. By their skillful editing, letters, speeches, and documents are fused into an intimate self-portrait. Here is, in effect, Abraham Lincoln's autobiography, from his early years in Springfield, through the upheavals of his Presidency, tho the day before he died"--from front jacket flap.
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