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Lincoln's White House : the People's House in Wartime.
Lincoln's White House is the first book devoted to capturing the look, feel, and smell of the executive mansion from Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 to his assassination in 1865. James Conroy brings to life the people who knew it, from servants to cabinet secretaries. We see the constant st...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Blue Ridge Summit, PA :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Lincoln's White House ; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1 The Painful Sense of Becoming Educated; 2 A Strange Mixture of Enthusiasm and Greed; 3 Plain and Simple in Its Appointments; 4 A Miscellaneous Assortment of Life and Character; 5 The White House Is Turned into Barracks; 6 It Is Good to Look at Beauty Once in a While; 7 Ink Stained and Work Worn; 8 The Republican Queen in Her White Palace; 9 This Is a God-Forsaken Hole; 10 This Damned Old House; 11 My Public Opinion Baths; 12 Bright Jewels and Bright Eyes; 13 Not an American Crime; 14 Bundles and Bales; 15 Like So Many Greenhead Flies.
- 16 Crazy and Poetry17 I Happen Temporarily to Occupy This Big White House; 18 And Everything Seemed to Weep; Epilogue; Author's Note and Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.