The Lincolns
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Author | : Gayle Brandeis |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2010-03-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 142995941X |
My dad used to be Abraham Lincoln. When I was six and learning to read, I saw his initials were A. B. E., Albert Baruch Edelman. ABE. That's when I knew. Mina Edelman believes that she and her family are the Lincolns reincarnated. Her main task for the next three months: to protect her father from assassination, her mother from insanity, and herself—Willie Lincoln incarnate—from death at age twelve. Apart from that, the summer of 1966 should be like any other. But Mina's dad begins taking Mina along to hear speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr in Chicago. And soon he brings the freedom movement to their own small town, with consequences for everyone, in Gayle Brandeis's My Life with the Lincolns.
Author | : Kevin Orlin Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022-02-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780965366076 |
Author | : William Marvel |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 2015-04-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1469622505 |
Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's secretary of war during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of Stanton in more than fifty years, William Marvel offers a detailed reexamination of Stanton's life, career, and legacy. Marvel argues that while Stanton was a formidable advocate and politician, his character was hardly benign. Climbing from a difficult youth to the pinnacle of power, Stanton used his authority--and the public coffers--to pursue political vendettas, and he exercised sweeping wartime powers with a cavalier disregard for civil liberties. Though Lincoln's ability to harness a cabinet with sharp divisions and strong personalities is widely celebrated, Marvel suggests that Stanton's tenure raises important questions about Lincoln's actual control over the executive branch. This insightful biography also reveals why men like Ulysses S. Grant considered Stanton a coward and a bully, who was unashamed to use political power for partisan enforcement and personal preservation.
Author | : Charles Lachman |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1402758901 |
Traces the unhappy descendents of Abraham Lincoln through three generations of divorce, remarriage, and early death, to the questionable legitimacy of the only child of the last confirmed Lincoln.
Author | : Daniel Mark Epstein |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 2009-01-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0345478002 |
Although the private lives of political couples have in our era become front-page news, the true story of this extraordinary and tragic first family has never been fully told. The Lincolns eclipses earlier accounts with riveting new information that makes husband and wife, president and first lady, come alive in all their proud accomplishments and earthy humanity. Award-winning biographer and poet Daniel Mark Epstein gives a fresh close-up view of the couple’s life in Springfield, Illinois (of their twenty-two years of marriage, all but six were spent there), and dramatizes with stunning immediacy how the Lincolns’ ascent to the White House brought both dazzling power and the slow, secret unraveling of the couple’s unique bond. The first full-length portrait of the marriage of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln in more than fifty years, The Lincolns is written with enormous sweep and striking imagery. Daniel Mark Epstein makes two immortal American figures seem as real and human as the rest of us.
Author | : Lane Smith |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1596436085 |
From the bestselling author of "It's a Book" comes a funny, touching tale about the legacy of America's greatest president. Full color.
Author | : Jennifer Chiaverini |
Publisher | : Dutton |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2013-09-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0142180351 |
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini's compelling historical novel unveils the private lives of Abraham and Mary Lincoln through the perspective of the First Lady's most trusted confidante and friend, her dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckley. In a life that spanned nearly a century and witnessed some of the most momentous events in American history, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley was born a slave. A gifted seamstress, she earned her freedom by the skill of her needle, and won the friendship of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln by her devotion. A sweeping historical novel, Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker illuminates the extraordinary relationship the two women shared, beginning in the hallowed halls of the White House during the trials of the Civil War and enduring almost, but not quite, to the end of Mrs. Lincoln's days.
Author | : Ida Minerva Tarbell |
Publisher | : New York, London : Harper & brothers |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Lincoln family (Samuel Lincoln, 1619?-1690) |
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Young Samuel Lincoln, who had been apprenticed as a weaver in England, arrived in the Puritan colony of Boston Bay in 1637. Ida M. Tarbell traces the generations from Samuel to Abraham Lincoln, offering rich details of character and circumstance and showing that the president's ancestors were not precisely as his detractors painted them. She takes Abraham Lincoln from the cabin of his birth to the White House, where he is introduced to a nation in crisis.
Author | : Genevieve Foster |
Publisher | : Beautiful Feet Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2000-04-01 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
ISBN | : 9781893103054 |
A historical survey of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas during the lifetime of Abraham Lincoln, examining people, places, and events which gave color to the world of the nineteenth century.
Author | : Ted Widmer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476739455 |
WINNER OF THE LINCOLN FORUM BOOK PRIZE “A Lincoln classic...superb.” —The Washington Post “A book for our time.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin Lincoln on the Verge tells the dramatic story of America’s greatest president discovering his own strength to save the Republic. As a divided nation plunges into the deepest crisis in its history, Abraham Lincoln boards a train for Washington and his inauguration—an inauguration Southerners have vowed to prevent. Lincoln on the Verge charts these pivotal thirteen days of travel, as Lincoln discovers his power, speaks directly to the public, and sees his country up close. Drawing on new research, this riveting account reveals the president-elect as a work in progress, showing him on the verge of greatness, as he foils an assassination attempt, forges an unbreakable bond with the American people, and overcomes formidable obstacles in order to take his oath of office.