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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... north hall to shake President Lincoln's hand. For several hours extending into the early evening, the president and his first lady greeted what seemed like most of the plain, anonymous Americans who the prior November had voted the ...
... north side of the avenue lending the city the biggest dollop of mercantile class anywhere between Baltimore to the north and Charleston to the south. In 1861, a puny total of ten buildings represented the physical presence of the ...
... North End, roughly the blocks spread out in front of the White House's main entrance. That was where the well-to-do had built generously proportioned houses on choice sites, homes in the main still occupied by grandees such as the ...
... north side facing Lafayette Square and Pennsylvania Avenue. But the fence's pair of decorative gates remained open to anyone who cared to wander through them. No guard post impeded visitors, either friends or strangers, from walking ...
... north entrance of the White House every day, but only a few did so in response to the first lady's bidding. And almost none of those so bidden were black. But on the day after the inauguration, a purposeful-looking, well-dressed African ...
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 |