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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... Inauguration Day. Lincoln's election as president fourteen weeks earlier had almost guaranteed that half of America would leave the Union. The new “Confederate” flag already flew above the legislative ONE March 4, 1861—Washington City ...
... inaugural ceremonies had been the cadaverous Roger Taney, octogenarian chief justice of the United States, who four years earlier in the court's Dred Scott decision had written that “Negroes had no rights the white man was bound to ...
... inaugural platform overlooking the 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 ...
... inaugural parade. The capital's “traditions” in some measure explain the Buchanans' outwardly ungracious behavior. In antebellum Washington, old hands rarely lent much useful knowledge to the new family in the Executive Mansion ...
... inaugural ball, the climactic gala that was a part of every new president's entry into office. For the ball, the planners had chosen a spot behind the City Hall and there threw together a huge but temporary plank pavilion, a muslin ...
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 |