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"The third installment of the Making of America series, Abraham Lincoln, tells of one of our most beloved presidents. Born in a cabin deep in the backwoods of Kentucky, growing up in a family considered "the poorest of the poor," Lincoln rose to become the sixteenth president of the United States. As president, he guided the United States through the Civil War, helped end slavery in America, and strengthened the federal government. Unlike other biographies,...
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Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Examines the political and social events that led to the creation of the Emancipation Proclamation through a review of the financial, economical, and social differences between the North and the South at that time.
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Few biographers and historians have taken Lincolns ideas seriously or placed him in the context of major intellectual traditions. In What Lincoln Believed, the most comprehensive study ever written of the thought of Americas most revered president, Michael Lind provides a resource to the public philosophy that guided Lincoln as a statesman and shaped the United States.
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Brings together essays, anecdotes, reflections, and never-before-published images and artifacts from the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, accompanied by factual sidebars, and biographical details.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Follows America's sixteenth president from inexperienced back-country politician to a head of state confronted by grave issues and moral dilemmas, as he struggled to preserve the United States of America while ending the unjust horrors of human slavery.
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