The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a FamilyFrom the day of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, a nation divided by savage conflict confronted the new president. But what many don't know was that within the White House's walls, the Lincoln's family would soon find itself suffering turmoil mirroring that of the nation he led. |
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... a small but steady stream of cashcarrying sightseers who came to look at the building in which Congress made the nation's laws and the palace in which their president resided. It was, unmistakably, a Southern town, one that.
... Congress was in recess. Most notably, it was a slave city, sandwiched between the slave states of Maryland and Virginia. The capital itself was thoroughly steeped in slave culture, the owning of black Africans perfectly lawful and ...
... Congress as the representative from the Eighth District of Illinois, a distinction in itself greater than most men achieve in a lifetime. The early years of marriage did bring Mary satisfaction and evidence that her optimism about the ...
... Congress a decade and a half earlier. Moreover, his party, of whom he was the first member to be elected president and which hadn't even existed four years earlier, was an unknown quantity except for its commitment to stop the spread of ...
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Contents
THREE Calamity in War Calamity at Home | |
FOUR Death in the White House | |
SEVEN An Unfinished Work | |
EPILOGUE The Flying Dutchman | |
NOTES | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
INDEX | |
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The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a Family Jerrold M. Packard Limited preview - 2006 |
The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a Family Jerrold M. Packard Limited preview - 2005 |