Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney

Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney
Author: James F. Simon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 074325032X

The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession, and the president's constitutional war powers are vividly brought to life in this compelling story of the momentous tug-of-war between these two men during the worst crisis in American history.

Blasphemy

Blasphemy
Author: Leonard Williams Levy
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 708
Release: 1995
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780807845158

What society considers blasphemy - a verbal assault against the sacred - is a litmus test of the standards it believes to be necessary to preserve unity, order, and morality. Society has always condemned as blasphemy what it regards as an abuse of liberty

History of the Book in Canada: Beginnings to 1840

History of the Book in Canada: Beginnings to 1840
Author: History of the Book in Canada Project
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802089434

Impressive in its scope and depth of scholarship, this first volume of the History of the Book in Canada is a landmark in the chronicle of writing, publishing, bookselling, and reading in Canada.