Lincoln Today

Author : Donald T. Phillips
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780544814561

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Lincoln on Leadership for Today by Donald T. Phillips Pdf

“Phillips has a gift for making 19th-century history relevant for the 21st century . . . a marvelous way to think about our current policy woes.” —Douglas Brinkley, New York Times-bestselling author of American Moonshot How can President Lincoln’s wisdom be applied to the most pressing conflicts of modern-day America? With a fresh and perceptive reading of Lincoln’s own writings and speeches, bestselling author Donald T. Phillips reveals how America’s sixteenth president handled many of the same national dilemmas we face today. Looking to his exemplary leadership of a fractured nation, Phillips offers a deeply relevant analysis of how Lincoln’s example could help forge solutions to the many issues and divisions challenging our country now. “[An] intelligent and often moving look at one of the nation’s greatest presidents . . . Using his extensive knowledge of Lincoln, Phillips makes convincing cases throughout for what the nineteenth-century statesman’s opinion would be on a wide array of issues faced by the twenty-first-century United States, including climate change, torture, immigration, and equal pay for women. For readers who find present-day politics almost too much to contemplate, Phillips’s closing vision of Lincoln witnessing the ‘current state of affairs’ will be especially poignant and bittersweet.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : United States Lincoln Sesquincentennial Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131425451

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Abraham Lincoln Through the Eyes of High School Youth by United States Lincoln Sesquincentennial Commission Pdf

Author : Jason Emerson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252094170

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Mary Lincoln's Insanity Case by Jason Emerson Pdf

In 1875 Mary Lincoln, the widow of a revered president, was committed to an insane asylum by her son, Robert. The trial that preceded her internment was a subject of keen national interest. The focus of public attention since Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860, Mary Lincoln had attracted plentiful criticism and visible scorn from much of the public, who perceived her as spoiled, a spendthrift, and even too much of a Southern sympathizer. Widespread scrutiny only increased following her husband's assassination in 1865 and her son Tad's death six years later, after which her overwhelming grief led to the increasingly erratic behavior that led to her being committed to a sanitarium. A second trial a year later resulted in her release, but the stigma of insanity stuck. In the years since, questions emerged with new force, as the populace and historians debated whether she had been truly insane and subsequently cured, or if she was the victim of family maneuvering. In this volume, noted Lincoln scholar Jason Emerson provides a documentary history of Mary Lincoln's mental illness and insanity case, evenhandedly presenting every possible primary source on the subject to enable a clearer view of the facts. Beginning with documents from the immediate aftermath of her husband's assassination and ending with reminiscences by friends and family in the mid-twentieth century, Mary Lincoln's Insanity Case: A Documentary History compiles more than one hundred letters, dozens of newspaper articles, editorials, and legal documents, and the daily patient progress reports from Bellevue Place Sanitarium during Mary Lincoln's incarceration. Including many materials that have never been previously published, Emerson also collects multiple reminiscences, interviews, and diaries of people who knew Mary Lincoln or were involved in the case, including the first-hand recollection of one of the jurors in the 1875 insanity trial. Suggesting neither accusation nor exoneration of the embattled First Lady, Mary Lincoln's Insanity Case: A Documentary History gives scholars and history enthusiasts incomparable access to the documents and information crucial to understanding this vexing chapter in American history.

Author : Jean Dresden Grambs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D03592548S

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Abraham Lincoln Through the Eyes of High School Youth by Jean Dresden Grambs Pdf

Author : Participant
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610392648

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Lincoln by Participant Pdf

The First American. Frontiersman and backwoods attorney. Teller of bawdy tales and a spellbinding orator. A champion of liberty some called a would-be tyrant. Savior of the Union and the Great Emancipator. All these are Abraham Lincoln -- in his time America's most admired and reviled leader, and still our nation's most enigmatic and captivating hero. Timed to complement the new motion picture Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg, Lincoln: A President for the Ages introduces a new Lincoln grappling with some of history's greatest challenges. Would Lincoln have dropped the bomb on Hiroshima? How would he conduct the War on Terror? Would he favor women's suffrage or gay rights? Would today's Lincoln be a star on Facebook and Twitter? Would he embrace the religious right -- or denounce it? The answers come from an all-star array of historians and scholars, including Jean Baker, Richard Carwardine, Dan Farber, Andrew Ferguson, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Allen C. Guelzo, Harold Holzer, James Malanowski, James Tackach, Frank J. Williams, and Douglas L. Wilson. Lincoln also features actor/activist Gloria Reuben describing how she played Elizabeth Keckley, the former-slave-turned-confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln; and a selection of speeches and letters that explore little-known sides of Lincoln; "The Faces of Lincoln," exploring his complex contemporary legacy. Whether you're a lifetime admirer of Lincoln or newly intrigued by his story, Lincoln: A President for the Ages offers a fascinating glimpse of his many-sided legacy.

Author : Roger Billings,Frank J. Williams
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813126098

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Abraham Lincoln, Esq. by Roger Billings,Frank J. Williams Pdf

As our nation's most beloved and recognizable president, Abraham Lincoln is best known for the Emancipation Proclamation and for guiding our country through the Civil War. But before he took the oath of office, Lincoln practiced law for nearly twenty-five years in the Illinois courts. Abraham Lincoln, Esq.: The Legal Career of America's Greatest President examines Lincoln's law practice and the effect it had on his presidency and the country. Editors Roger Billings and Frank J. Williams, along with a notable list of contributors, examine Lincoln's career as a general-practice attorney, looking both at his work in Illinois and at the time he spent in Washington. Each chapter offers an expansive look at Lincoln's legal mind and covers diverse topics such as Lincoln's legal writing, ethics, the Constitution, and international law. Abraham Lincoln, Esq. emphasizes this often overlooked period in Lincoln's career and sheds light on Lincoln's life before he became our sixteenth president.

Author : Abraham Lincoln,Danilo Petranović,Ralph Lerner,Benjamin A. Kleinerman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300165104

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln,Danilo Petranović,Ralph Lerner,Benjamin A. Kleinerman Pdf

Collects some of Lincoln's writings, including speeches and letters, and features four interpretive essays that explore the President's legacy.

Author : Richard Lawrence Miller
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786488124

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Lincoln and His World by Richard Lawrence Miller Pdf

In the climax of Richard Lawrence Miller's epic four-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln's pre-presidential years, a blunder by the proponents of slavery propels Lincoln toward the White House. Initially, passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act seems to be a victory for the South, opening the American West to slavery. Ultimately, however, the North rises in anger, with Lincoln helping to fan the flames of rage. Before the first shot of the Civil War is fired, the ambitious westerner is transformed, seeking more power yet, but wielding it in defense of the American dream. His dedication and dependability set him apart from his Republican competitors and help him secure his party's presidential nomination in 1860. With this installment, the most detailed and comprehensive biography of a pre-presidential Abraham Lincoln in the past 100 years comes to its conclusion.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Arrangements,United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Arrangements on the Commemoration Ceremony in Observance of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1959
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435005449426

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Abraham Lincoln Commemoration Ceremony by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Arrangements,United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Arrangements on the Commemoration Ceremony in Observance of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1959 Pdf

Author : Timothy Sean Good
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781604736960

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We Saw Lincoln Shot by Timothy Sean Good Pdf

On the evening of 14 April 1865 when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theatre, an entire audience was witness to the tragedy. From diaries, letters, depositions, affidavits, and periodicals, here is a collection of accounts from a variety of theatergoers - who by chance saw one of the truly pivotal events in U. S. history. Providing minute first-hand details recorded over a span of ninety years, We Saw Lincoln Shot explores a subject that will forever be debated. With a sharp focus upon the circumstances reported by one hundred actual witnesses, We Saw Lincoln Shot provides vivid documentation of a momentous evening and exposes errors that have been perpetuated as the assassination has been rendered into written histories.

Author : Roy Basler,Carl Sandburg
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786723720

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Abraham Lincoln by Roy Basler,Carl Sandburg Pdf

This volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers, and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces—the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican Convention Speech, the Emancipation Proclamation—but hundreds of lesser-known gems. Alfred Kazin has written that Lincoln was "not just the greatest writer among our Presidents . . . but the most telling and unforgettable of all American 'public' writer-speakers," and it's never been cleaner than in this comprehensive edition.

Author : Jackie Hogan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781442209541

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Lincoln, Inc. by Jackie Hogan Pdf

Lincoln, Inc. is an engaging examination of the uses and abuses of the sixteenth president's image in America today. Whether in political campaigns, blockbuster films, school pageants, or soft drink advertisements, the use of the Lincoln image reveals who we think we are as a nation, and who we wish we could be.

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393614732

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Lincoln's Selected Writings (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) by Abraham Lincoln Pdf

Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings—from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations. Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln—including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman. “Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton. A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included.

Author : Mario M. Cuomo
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015059106016

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Why Lincoln Matters by Mario M. Cuomo Pdf

Cuomo argues that in today's charged political climate, Abraham Lincoln--founding member of the Republican Party--would be hard-pressed to recognize the issues in the contemporary GOP.

Author : Adam Selzer
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738745145

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Ghosts of Lincoln by Adam Selzer Pdf

Abraham Lincoln is one of the most haunted—and haunting—presidents in US history. Sightings of Lincoln’s ghost, as well as the ghost of his assassin, have been reported for more than 150 years. Visited by eerie premonitions, morbid dreams, and unusual events that seem too bizarre to be coincidence, Lincoln has become the source of dozens of myths and paranormal mysteries. Investigating everything from obscure séance transcripts and nearly forgotten newspaper articles to the most peculiar paranormal claims, Ghosts of Lincoln digs deep into the annals of history and reveals the fascinating true stories behind the tales, rumors, and lore. Praise: "A fascinating read."—NEXUS Magazine