Lincoln
eBook - ePub

Lincoln

  1. 720 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Lincoln

About this book

A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.

Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by civil war. Donald goes beyond biography, illuminating the gradual development of Lincoln’s character, chronicling his tremendous capacity for evolution and growth, thus illustrating what made it possible for a man so inexperienced and so unprepared for the presidency to become a great moral leader. In the most troubled of times, here was a man who led the country out of slavery and preserved a shattered Union—in short, one of the greatest presidents this country has ever seen.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Maps
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter One: Annals of the Poor
  7. Chapter Two: A Piece of Floating Driftwood
  8. Chapter Three: Cold, Calculating, Unimpassioned Reason
  9. Chapter Four: Always a Whig
  10. Chapter Five: Lone Star of Illinois
  11. Chapter Six: At the Head of his Profession in This State
  12. Chapter Seven: There Are No Whigs
  13. Chapter Eight: A House Divided
  14. Chapter Nine: The Taste Is in My Mouth
  15. Chapter Ten: An Accidental Instrument
  16. Chapter Eleven: A People’s Contest
  17. Chapter Twelve: The Bottom Is Out of the Tub
  18. Chapter Thirteen: An Instrument in God’s Hands
  19. Chapter Fourteen: A Pumpkin in Each End of My Bag
  20. Chapter Fifteen: What Will the Country Say!
  21. Chapter Sixteen: A New Birth of Freedom
  22. Chapter Seventeen: The Greatest Question Ever Presented to Practical Statesmanship
  23. Chapter Eighteen: It Was Not Best to Swap Horses
  24. Chapter Nineteen: I Am Pretty Sure-Footed
  25. Chapter Twenty: With Charity for All
  26. Chapter Twenty-One: I Will Take Care of Myself
  27. Photographs
  28. Author Bio
  29. Sources and Notes
  30. Index
  31. Footnotes
  32. Copyright

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