The Unquotable Abraham Lincoln

The Unquotable Abraham Lincoln
Author: Lochlainn Seabrook
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2016-01-10
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781943737185

If we're to believe the nearly 20,000 books that have been written about President Lincoln by pro-North and New South historians, he was an ardent abolitionist, a Bible-believing Christian, and a Constitution-loving conservative who headed the most ethical administration in U.S. history, preserved the Union, ended American slavery, and became the black man's greatest champion by granting him full civil and equal rights. In fact, according to Lincoln's own words, nothing could be further from the truth. After reading this eye-opening book, you'll be asking yourself the question: Why then does Lincoln continue to be annually voted America's "best," "favorite," and "most important" president by people of all ages, races, religions, and political persuasions? The answer-well-known to Southerners for the past 150 years-is that the real Lincoln has been carefully concealed from us by his faithful worshipers, the Lincolnites, some who are simply uninformed, others who will stop at nothing to keep you from learning the facts about our sixteenth chief executive and his unconstitutional, unnecessary, and unjustifiable war. In this handy Civil War Sesquicentennial Edition of "The Unquotable Abraham Lincoln," Southern historian and award-winning Tennessee author Lochlainn Seabrook closely examines the politically incorrect statements they don't want you to know. Included here, among some 230 footnoted entries, are Lincoln's controversial, even un-American, views on his presidency, the government, the U.S. Constitution, states' rights, the Union, his war on the South, abolition, slavery, colonization, African-Americans, Mexicans, "mulattos," the Confederacy, the Southern people, his Emancipation Proclamation, Jesus, the Bible, Christianity, and more. This is an indispensable work for those interested in the American Civil War, for without a true and complete understanding of Lincoln one will never have a true and complete understanding of the conflict itself. Available in paperback and hardcover. Civil War scholar Lochlainn Seabrook, a descendant of the families of Alexander H. Stephens and John S. Mosby, is the most prolific and popular pro-South writer in the world today. Known as the "new Shelby Foote," he is a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal and the author of over 45 books. A seventh-generation Kentuckian of Appalachian heritage and the sixth great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford, Mr. Seabrook has a forty-year background in American and Southern history, and is the author of the runaway bestseller "Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!" His other works include: "The Great Yankee Coverup: What the North Doesn't Want You to Know About Lincoln's War"; "Confederate Flag Facts: What Every American Should Know About Dixie's Southern Cross"; "Confederacy 101: Amazing Facts You Never Knew About America's Oldest Political Tradition"; and "Everything You Were Taught About American Slavery is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!"

The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia

The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia
Author: Mark E. Neely
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1982
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Among the many novel features of this volume: It carefully examines Lincoln's views on a wide variety of subjects such as economics, race, the Constitution, Indians, patronage, habeas corpus, and dozens more. It offers biographical sketches of members of Lincoln's family and describes how he felt about them, including his "rebel" sister-in-law and an enterprising cousin who used Lincoln's Presidential nomination to launch a flourishing souvenir business. It portrays and clearly captures scores of Lincoln's associates, assistants, colleagues, and enemies, from Charles Francis Adams and George Atzerodt to Fernando Wood and Richard Yates. It appraises all the major Lincoln biographers and their books and also covers others associated with the subject: collectors and collections, portrait painters and photographers, famous documents and sites. - From Publisher.

Carnegie

Carnegie
Author: Peter Krass
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2011-09-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1118208579

One of the major figures in American history, Andrew Carnegie was a ruthless businessman who made his fortune in the steel industry and ultimately gave most of it away. He used his wealth to ascend the world's political stage, influencing the presidencies of Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt. In retirement, Carnegie became an avid promoter of world peace, only to be crushed emotionally by World War I. In this compelling biography, Peter Krass reconstructs the complicated life of this titan who came to power in America's Gilded Age. He transports the reader to Carnegie's Pittsburgh, where hundreds of smoking furnaces belched smoke into the sky and the air was filled with acrid fumes . . . and mill workers worked seven-day weeks while Carnegie spent months traveling across Europe. Carnegie explores the contradictions in the life of the man who rose from lowly bobbin boy to build the largest and most profitable steel company in the world. Krass examines how Carnegie became one of the greatest philanthropists ever known-and earned a notorious reputation that history has yet to fully reconcile with his remarkable accomplishments.

Quotationary

Quotationary
Author: Leonard Roy Frank
Publisher: Random House Trade
Total Pages: 1064
Release: 2000-09
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780375408885

Abraham Lincoln, American Prince

Abraham Lincoln, American Prince
Author: Wayne Soini
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2022-02-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476645582

The relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his two most influential ancestors--his mother and "the Virginia planter," a slaveholder, a shadowy grandfather he likely never met--is rarely mentioned in Lincoln biographies or in history texts. However, Lincoln, forever linked to the cause of freedom and equality in America, spoke candidly of the planter to his law partner, Billy Herndon, who recalled his words, "My mother inherited his qualities and I hers. All that I am or ever hope to be I get from my mother--God bless her." This vital two-generation relationship was nonetheless problematic. In Lincoln's boyhood the planter was a figure he ridiculed while in his young manhood the planter evolved into a role model whom Lincoln revered and associated with Jefferson's overdue ideal that "all men are created equal." Thus galvanized "by blood" to educate himself, to stand for election and to oppose slavery, Lincoln quit farming at age 22. This book explains how he thus followed an inherited family dream.

Transmedia Character Studies

Transmedia Character Studies
Author: Tobias Kunz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2023-03-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000860388

Transmedia Character Studies provides a range of methodological tools and foundational vocabulary for the analysis of characters across and between various forms of multimodal, interactive, and even non-narrative or non-fictional media. This highly innovative work offers new perspectives on how to interrelate production discourses, media texts, and reception discourses, and how to select a suitable research corpus for the discussion of characters whose serial appearances stretch across years, decades, or even centuries. Each chapter starts from a different notion of how fictional characters can be considered, tracing character theories and models to approach character representations from perspectives developed in various disciplines and fields. This book will enable graduate students and scholars of transmedia studies, film, television, comics studies, video game studies, popular culture studies, fandom studies, narratology, and creative industries to conduct comprehensive, media-conscious analyses of characters across a variety of media.

Random House Webster's Quotationary

Random House Webster's Quotationary
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1058
Release: 2008
Genre: Quotations, English
ISBN: 9780307290359

A comprehensive collection of quotations. Arranged by subject, easy to use. More new quotes than any other book.

Short Stories

Short Stories
Author: Alfred Ludlow White
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1891
Genre: Short stories
ISBN:

Lincoln's Sword

Lincoln's Sword
Author: Douglas L. Wilson
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2011-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307487539

Widely considered in his own time as a genial but provincial lightweight who was out of place in the presidency, Abraham Lincoln astonished his allies and confounded his adversaries by producing a series of speeches and public letters so provocative that they helped revolutionize public opinion on such critical issues as civil liberties, the use of black soldiers, and the emancipation of slaves. This is a brilliant and unprecedented examination of how Lincoln used the power of words to not only build his political career but to keep the country united during the Civil War.