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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... wasn't flooded, it was just about always either muddy, dusty, or frozen over. There was Quality in the city, mostly in the North End, roughly the blocks spread out in front of the White House's main entrance. That was where the well-to ...
... wasn't outlawed there as it was elsewhere in the South, although little enough black education existed even in Kentucky. Wherever the institution of slavery existed, though, its reality meant that black newborns became their white ...
... wasn't dismaying someone or exhibiting inexplicable and sometimes self-destructive behavior, the latter often manifested by the cutting edge of her tongue. She was not then, though, mentally ill, at least not continually, or beyond a ...
... wasn't temporary. For the remainder of his life, Robert Todd Lincoln stood apart from his living parents and, after his own death, even from his parents' legacies. History's often repeated explanation that Robert was “entirely Todd ...
... wasn't surprising that nearly every one of the candidates for membership in his cabinet believed he could manage the country better than Lincoln could, that most thought of themselves as a better potential president than the man who had ...
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 |