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A look into the Lincoln White House through the lives of two of his closest aides and confidants draws on letters and diaries to evaluate their roles in the seminal events of Lincoln's presidency and their fight to establish the assassinated president's heroic legacy.

In February of 1861, Abraham Lincoln faced a threat of assassination as he traveled by train from Springfield to Washington for his inauguration. Over thirteen days, legendary detective Allan Pinkerton worked feverishly to thwart the plot, assisted by Kate Warne, America's first female private eye. Pinkerton struggled to unravel the details of the plot, even as he contended with Lincoln and his advisors, who refused to believe that the danger was...

Describes how the deep rivalry between the Civil War eras most notable photographers led them in a paparazzi-like race to be the first to take the most sensational, ghastly photos of Abraham Lincoln after his assassination.

When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...

This New York Times best-seller from noted historian and acclaimed author Jay Winik forever changes common perceptions of the final month of the American Civil War. April 1865 could have destroyed the nation. Instead, it saved it. As April begins, the battered Confederate capital of Richmond falls to the Union Army. Robert E. Lee surrenders his forces to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox one week later. In good spirits and sensing the war's end, President...

When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.

Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal. Showing intelligence beyond society's expectations, fourteen-year-old Ana Ferreira lands a job in the...

Abraham Lincoln was known for his sense of humor. But in 1842, early in his adult life, it nearly got him into trouble. He had to use his imagination to save his career--and maybe even his life.

"By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. That day, after a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington's Capitol grounds to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a second term. As the sun emerged, Lincoln rose to give perhaps the greatest inaugural address in American history, stunning the nation by arguing, in a brief 701 words, that both sides...

The story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln's assassin in 1865.