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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... 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 if it weren't for slavery. He would ...
... . When Lincoln rose to speak, he realized his hat was still in his hands and quickly looked around for a place to put it. Stephen Douglas, once the new president's bitterest political enemy and a man who had decades earlier courted young.
... political catastrophe, Lincoln still possessed only scant knowledge of how to make his government do what he wanted it to do. The executive branch then possessed nothing like today's “transition teams,” and the minuscule office of the ...
... political pounding inflicted on him in his first year in the White House. Mary reacted just as her husband had. From the beginning, she, too, gave Willie a vast and undemanding love. Whatever faults she may have had as a wife or friend ...
... political terms, magnificently serve the president for the next four years. It would also equally agreeably serve the pair's long lifetime of friendship, culminating in a jointly written encyclopedic memoir of the Lincoln administration ...
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 |