
- 430 pages
- English
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About this book
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country's most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the "Westerner" who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before becoming the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln successfully navigated the Union through the Civil War but didn't live to witness his crowning achievement, becoming the first president assassinated when he was shot at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. In the generation after the Civil War, Lincoln became an American deity and one of the most written about men in history. With such a sterling reputation, even historians hesitate to write a critical word; in Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin casts Lincoln as an almost superhuman puppet master in control of his Cabinet's political machinations and the war's direction, juggling the balancing act flawlessly. As a result, Lincoln the man is far less known than Lincoln the myth.-Print ed.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- LINCOLN: MASTER OF MEN
- THE LINCOLN CENTENNIAL ASSOCIATION
- DEDICATION
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I - A SAMSON OF THE BACKWOODS
- CHAPTER II - LOVE, WAR, AND POLITICS
- CHAPTER III - GIANTS, BIG AND LITTLE
- CHAPTER IV - THE POWER BEHIND THE THRONE
- CHAPTER V - AN INDISPENSABLE MAN
- CHAPTER VI - THE CURBING OF STANTON
- CHAPTER VII - HOW THE PATHFINDER LOST THE TRAIL
- CHAPTER VIII - THE YOUNG NAPOLEON
- A LIST OF THE BOOKS CITED,