Lincoln as I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes, and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies
by:
Harold Holzer (author)
This is a fascinating collection of nineteenth-century letters, diary entries, book excerpts, and speeches written by people who actually met Abraham Lincoln. How did abolitionists and slaveholders invited to the White House view him? Why were Lincoln's childhood playmates jealous of him? How did...
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This is a fascinating collection of nineteenth-century letters, diary entries, book excerpts, and speeches written by people who actually met Abraham Lincoln. How did abolitionists and slaveholders invited to the White House view him? Why were Lincoln's childhood playmates jealous of him? How did fellow lawyers rate his legal skills?
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781565121669 (156512166X)
Publish date: 1999-10-01
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Pages no: 269
Edition language: English
My problem with history books, generally speaking, until recently, was the most of them tended to focus on statistics in one form or another (dates, battles, treaties, laws, etc) and very rarely about the people, the culture. One without the other is history without context and as such either put m...
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