Lincoln S Greatcoat

Author : Reignette G. Chilton
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476674537

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Lincoln's Greatcoat by Reignette G. Chilton Pdf

Brooks Brothers crafted Abraham Lincoln's greatcoat in honor of the president's second inauguration. The coat's wool was "finer than cashmere." Its quilted silk lining bore an embroidered banner that read, "One Country, One Destiny." Lincoln wore the garment when he was assassinated on April 14, 1865. After his death, Mrs. Lincoln gave the greatcoat to a faithful doorkeeper. The coat was returned to Ford's Theatre more than a century after her bequest, but not before it underwent a mysterious journey. This book recounts that journey as a reminder of the 16th president and his call to "bind up wounds" and care for others.

Author : John Avlon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982108137

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Lincoln and the Fight for Peace by John Avlon Pdf

A groundbreaking, revelatory history of Abraham Lincoln's plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War-a vision that inspired future presidents as well as the world's most famous peacemakers, including Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a story of war and peace, race and reconciliation

Author : Harold Holzer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Niall O'Dowd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781510736351

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Lincoln and the Irish by Niall O'Dowd Pdf

An unprecedented narrative of the relationship that swung the Civil War. When Pickett charged at Gettysburg, it was the all-Irish Pennsylvania 69th who held fast while the surrounding regiments broke and ran. And it was Abraham Lincoln who, a year earlier at Malvern Hill, picked up a corner of one of the Irish colors, kissed it, and said, “God bless the Irish flag.” Lincoln and the Irish untangles one of the most fascinating subtexts of the Civil War: Abraham Lincoln’s relationship with the men and women coming to America to escape the Irish famine. Renowned Irish-American journalist Niall O’Dowd gives unprecedented insight into a relationship that began with mutual disdain. Lincoln saw the Irish as instinctive supporters of the Democratic opposition, while the Irish saw the English landlord class in Lincoln’s Republicans. But that dynamic would evolve, and the Lincoln whose first political actions included intimidating Irish voters at the polls would eventually hire Irish nannies and donate to the Irish famine fund. When he was voted into the White House, Lincoln surrounded himself with Irish staff, much to the chagrin of a senior aide who complained about the Hibernian cabal. And the Irish would repay Lincoln’s faith—their numbers and courage would help swing the Civil War in his favor, and among them would be some of his best generals and staunchest advocates.

Author : Terry Crawford
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781503531956

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The Trouble with Jack Ireland by Terry Crawford Pdf

Valentine’s Day 1939. A body found in the hold of a Norwegian cargo ship ignites Det. Sgt. Jack Ireland’s investigation of a lifetime. A case the deputy chief of the Saint John Police Department considers “open and shut”—a matter he warns Ireland to leave alone. But Jack Ireland was never one to merely follow orders. That’s the trouble with Ireland—he has his own unique methods of unraveling a twisted intrigue involving foreign nationals—both hostile and friendly—on Atlantic Canadian soil. Who can Ireland trust, and what is going on under the cover of National Security?

Author : Rebecca M. Dresser
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000644319

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The Life of Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 1784-1815 by Rebecca M. Dresser Pdf

Placed within a comprehensive contextual historical narrative, The Life of Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 1784–1815 offers a compelling portrait of one brilliant but compromised man’s perspective of his changing times. Daniel Waldo Lincoln, the second son of Levi Lincoln, a prominent Massachusetts Democratic-Republican, was destined to become a man of influence. Born in 1784, equipped with wealth, prestige, a Harvard education, powerful friends, and a distinguished family name, Lincoln ranked high among the inheritors of the Revolution whose purpose was to protect the ideals of the nation’s founders. In over 250 private letters, essays, and poems beginning with his first day at Harvard in 1801 and ending just weeks before his death in 1815, Lincoln brings to readers a portrait of privilege as it careened into disappointment. A young man active in Republican circles, an orator and attorney in Worcester, Portland, Maine, and Boston, Lincoln comments on the politics, honor, religion, the War of 1812, and his struggles with romance and alcohol. Written for private eyes, his letters are an unusually candid eyewitness account of early-nineteenth-century Massachusetts interwoven with his personal agonies. This volume is of great use for students and scholars interested in life, society, and politics in nineteenth-century America.

Author : Harold Holzer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439192740

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Lincoln and the Power of the Press by Harold Holzer Pdf

“Lincoln believed that ‘with public sentiment nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.’ Harold Holzer makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lincoln’s leadership by showing us how deftly he managed his relations with the press of his day to move public opinion forward to preserve the Union and abolish slavery.” —Doris Kearns Goodwin From his earliest days, Lincoln devoured newspapers. As he started out in politics he wrote editorials and letters to argue his case. He spoke to the public directly through the press. He even bought a German-language newspaper to appeal to that growing electorate in his state. Lincoln alternately pampered, battled, and manipulated the three most powerful publishers of the day: Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune, James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald, and Henry Raymond of the New York Times. When war broke out and the nation was tearing itself apart, Lincoln authorized the most widespread censorship in the nation’s history, closing down papers that were “disloyal” and even jailing or exiling editors who opposed enlistment or sympathized with secession. The telegraph, the new invention that made instant reporting possible, was moved to the office of Secretary of War Stanton to deny it to unfriendly newsmen. Holzer shows us an activist Lincoln through journalists who covered him from his start through to the night of his assassination—when one reporter ran to the box where Lincoln was shot and emerged to write the story covered with blood. In a wholly original way, Holzer shows us politicized newspaper editors battling for power, and a masterly president using the press to speak directly to the people and shape the nation.

Author : Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698148475

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Mrs. Lincoln's Rival by Jennifer Chiaverini Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters and Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker reveals Mary Todd Lincoln’s very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague in this astute and lively novel of the politics of state—set against the backdrop of Civil War Era Washington. Beautiful, intelligent, regal, and entrancing, young Kate Chase Sprague stepped into the role of establishing her thrice-widowed father, Salmon P. Chase, in Washington society as a Lincoln cabinet member and as a future presidential candidate. For her efforts, The Washington Star declared her “the most brilliant woman of her day. None outshone her.” None, that is, but Mary Todd Lincoln. Though Mrs. Lincoln and her young rival held much in common—political acumen, love of country, and a resolute determination to help the men they loved achieve greatness—they could never be friends, for the success of one could come only at the expense of the other...

Author : Harold Josling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082456660

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The Autobiography of a Military Great Coat by Harold Josling Pdf

Author : Burt Solomon
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765385840

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The Murder of Willie Lincoln by Burt Solomon Pdf

The Murder of Willie Lincoln is an exciting historical fiction debut by award-winning political journalist and Washington insider Burt Solomon. Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate President of the United States, is using all his will to keep his beloved land together. But Lincoln’s will and soul are tested when tragedy strikes the White House as Willie Lincoln, the love and shining light in the president’s heart, is taken by typhoid fever. But was this really the cause of his death? A message arrives, suggesting otherwise. Lincoln asks John Hay, his trusted aide—and almost a son—to investigate Willie’s death. Some see Hay as a gadfly--adventurous, incisive, lusty, reflective, skeptical, even cynical—but he loves the president and so seeks the truth behind the boy’s death. And so, as we follow Hay in his investigation, we are shown the loftiest and lowest corners of Washington City, from the president’s office and the gentleman’s dining room at Willard’s Hotel to the alley hovels, wartime hospitals, and the dome-less Capitol’s vermin-infested subbasement. We see the unfamiliar sides of a grief-stricken president, his hellcat of a wife, and their two surviving and suffering sons, and Hay matches wits with such luminaries as General McClellan, William Seward, and the indomitable detective Allan Pinkerton. What Hay discovers has the potential of not only destroying Lincoln, but a nation. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Alan Wood
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781445625225

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Military Ghosts by Alan Wood Pdf

The first ever ghostly gazetteer of military manifestations both here and abroad.

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000769485

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Abraham Lincoln's Stories and Speeches by Abraham Lincoln Pdf

Author : M. D. D. Newitt,Malyn Newitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190263935

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Emigration and the Sea by M. D. D. Newitt,Malyn Newitt Pdf

· Noted historian of the Lusophone world Malyn Newitt offers an expansive account of how exploration, imperialism and migration shaped the Portuguese and their global diaspora. · Uncovers the far-flung histories of Portuguese emigration -including Bermuda, Guyana and Hawaii as well as Brazil and Angola · Interwoven within this global history are the lives of Sephardic Jews and African slaves ...

Author : War office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600032432

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Army equipment by War office Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Smith Brownstein
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781620459478

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Lincoln's Other White House by Elizabeth Smith Brownstein Pdf

The Lincolns spent the summer of 1862 north of the White House at the Soldiers’ Home. The lush, cool hill overlooking the squalid capital promised the Lincolns an escape from the "city of stink." Despite fears about Lincoln’s vulnerability in the secluded place, Lincoln spent a quarter of his presidency at the Soldiers’ Home. But until the National Trust for Historic Preservation began restoring the cottage, little had been done to explore this missing link in Lincoln’s life. Elizabeth Smith Brownstein fills in a critical gap. Using diaries, letters, and eyewitness accounts, she provides unusual perspectives on Lincoln’s relationships, traces the evolution of Lincoln’s image, examines the Lincoln marriage, and more. Lincoln’s Other White House is a vivid evocation of a turbulent era, and an intimate portrait of the still elusive president.