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Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Based on a little-known tale from Abraham Lincoln's childhood, this deeply researched book tells the true story Abraham Lincoln being rescued from a cave by a dog named Honey.
"Based on primary sources, the true story of Abraham Lincoln being rescued from a cave by his rescue dog"--
Series
Griffith masterworks volume 2
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Abraham Lincoln: directed by D.W. Griffith, this Lincoln effort was one of the great talking films of the post-silent film era. These brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, his affair with Ann Rutledge, his courtship of Mary Todd and the Lincoln/Douglas debates. His presidency and the Civil War are followed in more detail, and the film concludes with the assassination.
The struggle: A departure from the historial...
Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Abraham Lincoln's early years as a lawyer in Springfield, IL. The film is essential John Ford Americana; Fonda's Lincoln is a mythic rugged individualist.
89) A house divided
Author
Series
Lincoln and Speed mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the winter of 1839, a sensational disappearance rocks Springfield, Illinois, as headlines announce a local man has accused his two brothers of murder. Not one to pass up an opportunity, Abraham Lincoln takes up the case of the accused with the assistance of his best friend Joshua Speed to search for evidence of innocence. But just as soon as they begin, Lincoln and Speed find their friendship at grave risk of rupture as they vie for the hand a...
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Young Abe Lincoln learns the meaning of selflessness and freedom when he encounters a soldier on a country road and gives up his prized possession: a fish he caught for the family's evening meal. Includes author's note on the early life of the sixteenth president.
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
Superbly edited and annotated, this collection of the writings of John Wilkes Booth constitutes a major new primary source that contributes to scholarship on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and nineteenth-century theater history. The nearly seventy documents--more than half published here for the first time--include love letters written during the summer of 1864, when Booth was conspiring against Lincoln, explicit statements of Booth's political convictions,...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
c1939.
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
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on President Lincoln Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration. The...
Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized account of Abraham Lincoln's early years as a lawyer in Springfield, Illinois. The film is essential John Ford Americana; Fonda's Lincoln is a mythic rugged individualist.
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Experience the Civil War from President Abraham Lincoln's perspective. Learn about the challenges he faced, how he responded to difficult issues, and how he shaped the country during this pressing time in office.
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