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Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141956633

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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln Pdf

The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, and that would also create a unified nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Author : William W. Freehling
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813941578

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Becoming Lincoln by William W. Freehling Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2018 Lincoln Prize Previous biographies of Abraham Lincoln—universally acknowledged as one of America’s greatest presidents—have typically focused on his experiences in the White House. In Becoming Lincoln, renowned historian William Freehling instead emphasizes the prewar years, revealing how Lincoln came to be the extraordinary leader who would guide the nation through its most bitter chapter. Freehling’s engaging narrative focuses anew on Lincoln’s journey. The epic highlights Lincoln’s difficult family life, first with his father and later with his wife. We learn about the staggering number of setbacks and recoveries Lincoln experienced. We witness Lincoln’s famous embodiment of the self-made man (although he sought and received critical help from others). The book traces Lincoln from his tough childhood through incarnations as a bankrupt with few prospects, a superb lawyer, a canny two-party politician, a great orator, a failed state legislator, and a losing senatorial candidate, to a winning presidential contender and a besieged six weeks as a pre-war president. As Lincoln’s individual life unfolds, so does the American nineteenth century. Few great Americans have endured such pain but been rewarded with such success. Few lives have seen so much color and drama. Few mirror so uncannily the great themes of their own society. No one so well illustrates the emergence of our national economy and the causes of the Civil War. The book concludes with a substantial epilogue in which Freehling turns to Lincoln’s wartime presidency to assess how the preceding fifty-one years of experience shaped the Great Emancipator’s final four years. Extensively illustrated, nuanced but swiftly paced, and full of examples that vividly bring Lincoln to life for the modern reader, this new biography shows how an ordinary young man from the Midwest prepared to become, against almost absurd odds, our most tested and successful president.

Author : Stephen B. Oates
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060924713

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With Malice Toward None by Stephen B. Oates Pdf

The definitive life of Abraham Lincoln, With Malice Toward None is historian Stephen B. Oates's acclaimed and enthralling portrait of America's greatest leader. Oates masterfully charts, with the pacing of a novel, Lincoln's rise from bitter poverty in America's midwestern frontier to become a self-made success in business, law, and regional politics. The second half of the book examines his legendary leadership on the national stage as president during one of the country's most tumultuous and bloody periods, the Civil War years, which concluded tragically with Lincoln's assassination. In this award-winning biography, Lincoln steps forward out of the shadow of myth as a recognizable, fully drawn American whose remarkable life continues to inspire and inform us today.

Author : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802842933

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Abraham Lincoln by Allen C. Guelzo Pdf

This biography of the sixteenth president explores Lincoln's life and political career along with insights into his philosophy, religious views, and moral character.

Author : Michael Burlingame
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421445564

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Abraham Lincoln by Michael Burlingame Pdf

Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised. Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, freedom, and democracy, Abraham Lincoln is arguably the most studied and admired of all Americans. Michael Burlingame's astonishing Abraham Lincoln: A Life, an updated, condensed version of the 2,000-page two-volume set that The Atlantic hailed as one of the five best books of 2009, offers fresh interpretations of this endlessly fascinating American leader. Based on deep research in unpublished sources as well as newly digitized sources, this work reveals how Lincoln's character and personality were the North's secret weapon in the Civil War, the key variables that spelled the difference between victory and defeat. He was a model of psychological maturity and a fully individuated man whose influence remains unrivaled in the history of American public life. Burlingame chronicles Lincoln's childhood and early development, romantic attachments and losses, his love of learning, legal training, and courtroom career as well as his political ambition, his term as congressman in the late 1840s, and his serious bouts of depression in early adulthood. Burlingame recounts, in fresh detail, the Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln marriage and traces the mounting moral criticism of slavery that revived his political career and won this Springfield lawyer the presidency in 1860. This abridgement delivers Burlingame's signature insight into Lincoln as a young man, a father, and a politician. Lincoln speaks to us not only as a champion of freedom, democracy, and national unity but also as a source of inspiration. Few have achieved his historical importance, but many can profit from his personal example, encouraged by the knowledge that despite a lifetime of troubles, he became a model of psychological maturity, moral clarity, and unimpeachable integrity. His presence and his leadership inspired his contemporaries; his life story will do the same for generations to come.

Author : Harold Holzer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416594406

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Lincoln President-Elect by Harold Holzer Pdf

One of our most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln at Cooper Union, examines the four months between Lincoln's election and inauguration, when the president-elect made the most important decision of his coming presidency—there would be no compromise on slavery or secession of the slaveholding states, even at the cost of civil war. Abraham Lincoln first demonstrated his determination and leadership in the Great Secession Winter—the four months between his election in November 1860 and his inauguration in March 1861—when he rejected compromises urged on him by Republicans and Democrats, Northerners and Southerners, that might have preserved the Union a little longer but would have enshrined slavery for generations. Though Lincoln has been criticized by many historians for failing to appreciate the severity of the secession crisis that greeted his victory, Harold Holzer shows that the presidentelect waged a shrewd and complex campaign to prevent the expansion of slavery while vainly trying to limit secession to a few Deep South states. During this most dangerous White House transition in American history, the country had two presidents: one powerless (the president-elect, possessing no constitutional authority), the other paralyzed (the incumbent who refused to act). Through limited, brilliantly timed and crafted public statements, determined private letters, tough political pressure, and personal persuasion, Lincoln guaranteed the integrity of the American political process of majority rule, sounded the death knell of slavery, and transformed not only his own image but that of the presidency, even while making inevitable the war that would be necessary to make these achievements permanent. Lincoln President-Elect is the first book to concentrate on Lincoln's public stance and private agony during these months and on the momentous consequences when he first demonstrated his determination and leadership. Holzer recasts Lincoln from an isolated prairie politician yet to establish his greatness, to a skillful shaper of men and opinion and an immovable friend of freedom at a decisive moment when allegiance to the founding credo "all men are created equal" might well have been sacrificed.

Author : J. McCan (John McCan) 1866-1916 Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1362672882

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HOW ABRAHAM LINCOLN BECAME PRE by J. McCan (John McCan) 1866-1916 Davis Pdf

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015026628860

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Abraham Lincoln, His Story in His Own Words by Abraham Lincoln Pdf

Two autobiographical campaign sketches and excerpts from his letters and speeches provide a narrative of the Great Emancipator's life and presidency, from his Kentucky birth to three days before his assassination.

Author : Abram Jesse Dittenhoefer
Publisher : New York, London, Harper & brothers [1916]
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : History
ISBN : YALE:39002014348222

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How We Elected Lincoln by Abram Jesse Dittenhoefer Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Raum
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781432964535

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Abraham Lincoln by Elizabeth Raum Pdf

A biography on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and his roles in the Civil War and the Great Emancipation.

Author : Harold Holzer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416547945

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Lincoln at Cooper Union by Harold Holzer Pdf

Winner of the Lincoln Prize Lincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address -- an extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered in New York in February 1860, the Cooper Union speech dispelled doubts about Lincoln's suitability for the presidency and reassured conservatives of his moderation while reaffirming his opposition to slavery to Republican progressives. Award-winning Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer places Lincoln and his speech in the context of the times -- an era of racism, politicized journalism, and public oratory as entertainment -- and shows how the candidate framed the speech as an opportunity to continue his famous "debates" with his archrival Democrat Stephen A. Douglas on the question of slavery. Holzer describes the enormous risk Lincoln took by appearing in New York, where he exposed himself to the country's most critical audience and took on Republican Senator William Henry Seward of New York, the front runner, in his own backyard. Then he recounts a brilliant and innovative public relations campaign, as Lincoln took the speech "on the road" in his successful quest for the presidency.

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1076179215

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Abraham Lincoln Life Story by Abraham Lincoln Pdf

The entire life story of our nations' greatest President, Abraham Lincoln, from birth to death in comic book / graphic novel format.

Author : Benjamin Platt Thomas
Publisher : New York : Knopf
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Lincoln, Abraham, President, U.S., 1809-1865
ISBN : NYPL:33433062831502

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Abraham Lincoln by Benjamin Platt Thomas Pdf

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Author : William Thayer
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1500908061

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From Pioneer Home to the White House: Life of Abraham Lincoln by William Thayer Pdf

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country's most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the "Westerner" who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before becoming the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln successfully navigated the Union through the Civil War but didn't live to witness his crowning achievement, becoming the first president assassinated when he was shot at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. In the generation after the Civil War, Lincoln became an American deity and one of the most written about men in history. With such a sterling reputation, even historians hesitate to write a critical word; in Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin casts Lincoln as an almost superhuman puppet master in control of his Cabinet's political machinations and the war's direction, juggling the balancing act flawlessly. As a result, Lincoln the man is far less known than Lincoln the myth. William Thayer's biography voluminously covers the life of America's 16th president from the perspective of a 19th century writer.

Author : William Charles Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015068819617

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Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency by William Charles Harris Pdf

Emphasizes the conservative bent that guided the young statesman's remarkable political evolution, revealing a Lincoln who was increasingly driven by his antislavery sentiments and fear for the republic in the hands of the Democrats like Stephen Douglas as much as--if not more than--his own political ambition.