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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... 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 of his life proved critical to his ...
... president's policies , saw this growth and later wrote of him : " In all of my interviews with Mr. Lin- coln I was impressed with his entire freedom from popular prejudice against the colored race . " 4 On the issue of blacks in freedom ...
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