Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure

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University of Illinois Press, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 421 pages
Fourth volume in a multivolume work considered to be useful to Lincoln scholars. Completed by Richard N Current using the notes and drafts Randall left at his death, this book describes the key events of Lincoln's administration from December 1863 to April 1865. It is a Bancroft Prize-winning history of Lincoln's last year in office.

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Contents

The State of the Union Lincolns Plan of Reconstruction
1
Lincolns Plan in Operation Unionism in the South
20
Public Relations
34
Lincolns Good Neighbor Police France Russia Mexico
53
Tycoon Daimios and Mikado
71
Chase is Willing
88
The Renomination of Lincoln
111
War Front and Peace Talk
138
ReElection
233
Policy Politics and Personnel
265
The Thirteenth Amendment
298
Another Peace Bubble
322
With Charity For All
341
Gods Man
365
Bibliography
380
Index
399

Congress Means and Ends
168
Dark Summer
198

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