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Publisher
Harcourt, Brace
Pub. Date
c1926.
Language
English
Description
Civil War and history buffs--as well as all lovers of fine writing--will delight in the detail and accuracy of Carl Sandburg's definitive, best-known biography of Honest Abe. Representing a lifetime of study by the great American poet, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years distills Sandburg's monumental six volume set into a single one-book edition. By gleaning every possible reference from history, literature, and popular lore, Sandburg...
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Told through the eyes of a young boy, the sober mood of the country after the Lincoln assassination is presented as he and many other mourners await to pay their respects to their fallen president as Lincoln's funeral train travels from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, IL in 1865.
Author
Publisher
Deseret Book
Language
English
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Description
Ballard argues that Lincoln was a man inspired of God who invoked a covenant relationship between America and its maker -- not unlike the national covenants invoked by righteous leaders in the Book of Mormon. In addition, Ballard reveals documented evidence that Abraham Lincoln did, in fact, check out the Book of Mormon as he struggled with making some of the most critical decisions of his presidency. Did he read it? Did it influence him? Was the...
Author
Language
English
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Traces Abraham Lincoln's ambitious climb from a provincial upstart to political powerhouse and shows how the lessons of Lincoln, who lived the American dream and succeeded in opening it for others, must be applied today to preserve a fluid economy in which individuals can thrive.
Author
Publisher
Grupo Nelson
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
No hay otra figura presidencial que domine el campo internacional como Abraham Lincoln. La figura de Lincoln se yergue con tintes extraordinarios no solo sobre la historia de Estados Unidos, sino sobre la universal. De manera bien significativa, el aspecto de la personalidad de Lincoln que ha sido peor tratado tanto en obras de ficcion como de no-ficcion es el espiritual. Lincoln fue un hombre de fe, que oraba habitualmente, que leia y conocia la...
Author
Language
English
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Description
In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of Americas greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce current understanding of Americas sixteenth president....
Author
Language
English
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Description
In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce current understanding of America's sixteenth president. In volume...
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