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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... Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol with the outgoing president, James Buchanan, deep banks of onlookers lining the rough roadway nearly blocked their carriage. Lincoln was painfully aware that for the first time a ...
... Pennsylvania Avenue. If the effects of the uncontrolled Potomac weren't enough, smaller arteries of equally filthy water bisected the heart of the federal district. The Tiber Creek, formerly and less grandly named Goose Creek, emptied ...
... Pennsylvania Avenue the filament tying the two together. From the top of eighty-foot-high Jenkins Hill, on which the city's designer had placed the legislative house, middle Pennsylvania Avenue traced a mile-long chain of hotels, cheap ...
... Pennsylvania Avenue itself was really only half a street as far as pedestrians were concerned—slaughterhouses and wholesale markets occupied virtually its entire south side, all of which backed up to the fetid slit latrine and open ...
... Avenue Front, meaning the building's 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 ...
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 |