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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... South's list of grievances, the specific issue of slavery had counted above all else in the just concluded election. Slavery indeed oven/vhelmed every other public concern in America, nearly so much that other quarrels about politics ...
... South's firebrands, he continued, “We must not be enemies though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living ...
... south. In 1861, a puny total of ten buildings represented the physical presence of the federal government; strewn between them were a few statues and the stub of the unfinished Washington Monument, squatting in the muck of the long and ...
... south side, all of which backed up to the fetid slit latrine and open sewer that was the Tiber Canal. What was more, when the town's only partly macadamized main boulevard wasn't flooded, it was just about always either muddy, dusty, or ...
... south side, the center of the second floor held the presidential family's “living room,” a large oval room corresponding to the elliptical Blue Room below. Bedrooms completed the western end of the floor, all opening onto the central ...
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 |