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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... summer, bitterly cold, damp, and snowy in the winter, with only relatively short breaks of temperate pleasantness in between. Some of spring and autumn were admittedly appealing, but the rest of the year was routinely so bad that the ...
... summers. But these “cliff dwellers” always fell back on their assured belief that they were socially superior to the “transients,” the first families that rotated through the White House every four or eight years. As Lincoln's ...
... summer they rode in the afternoons, and dined in the evenings.... In public matters the older man reposed in the younger's unlimited. confidence.”22. To serve as their living quarters in Washington, the president gave the two young men ...
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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 |