Lincoln's Last MonthsLincoln Prize winner William C. Harris turns to the last months of Abraham Lincoln's life in an attempt to penetrate this central figure of the Civil War, and arguably America's greatest president. Beginning with the presidential campaign of 1864 and ending with his shocking assassination, Lincoln's ability to master the daunting affairs of state during the final nine months of his life proved critical to his apotheosis as savior and saint of the nation. |
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... Civil War and arguably America's greatest president . Beginning with the electoral campaign of 1864 and ending with the assassination , Harris reveals that Lincoln's mastery of the daunting affairs of state during the last nine months ...
... Civil War . Lincoln's rise from a hard frontier and a largely self - educated background to become the finest exemplar of America's democratic and republican values has had an appeal for all generations , not only in the United States ...
... Civil War was fought to vindicate before the world and sustain in America the principles of self - government and constitutional liberty . The issue in the war , he announced in his message to Congress of July 4 , 1861 , " embraces more ...
... . At the same time he did not contemplate an active role for the federal gov- ernment in establishing civil rights for blacks in the South . He seemed willing to leave this authority to the restored state governments ( 3 ) INTRODUCTION.
... Civil War illuminate the man , his presidency , and the war he helped bring to an end . Accounts of his relationship with Mary Todd Lincoln , blacks , white Southerners , western Indians , the Federal military , and Congress are ...