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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... building's east front.1 Lincoln had started writing his inaugural address long before he'd left his Springfield home. But changes both momentous and perfunctory to the critically important speech continued almost up to the moment he ...
... by 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.
... building, which, thanks to a whim on Andrew Jackson's part, was built squarely where it would block the president's ... buildings represented the physical presence of the federal government; strewn between them were a few statues and the ...
... the color of the paint coating its sandstone exterior.9 All visitors to the building passed a statue of Thomas Jefferson placed in the center of the front lawn, undoubtedly many noticing that the antique monument could.
... building. No presidential “West Wing” then existed. Instead, the building's designer expected that the White House as conceived at the end of the eighteenth century would adequately fulfill its role as both home and office. What was ...
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 |