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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... nearly blue from the cold. Husband and wife felt markedly different about the dwelling that confronted them. What was to be the couple's home for the next four years looked more like a run-down plantation house than the head office of ...
... nearly so much that other quarrels about politics and social differences mattered relatively little. A single unavoidable reality stood above this day's events: Abraham Lincoln would not now be stepping across the White House threshold ...
... nearly blocked their carriage. Lincoln was painfully aware that for the first time a heavy military presence had been mustered to keep an incoming president safe from would-be assassins. Both men must have been shaken by the symbolism ...
... nearly as much a menace as did dangerous vermin. Only brave men and destitute women ventured alone onto the city's unlighted streets at night, when footpads and hoodlums freely ruled the darkness largely because the city's police force ...
... nearly universally accepted guidelines of the era fundamentally changed by the wife for the past eighteen years of Abraham Lincoln. Mary Lincoln—she did not, incidentally, call herself Mary Todd Lincoln, a common formulation used for ...
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 |