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Abraham Lincoln : a life. Vol. 1 /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "I have seen a good deal of the back side of this world": Childhood in Kentucky (1809-1816)
- "I used to be a slave": boyhood and adolescence in Indiana (1816-1830)
- "Separated from his father, he studied English grammar": New Salem (1831-1834)
- "A Napoleon of astuteness and political finesse": frontier legislator (1834-1837)
- "We must fight the devil with fire": Slasher-Gaff Politico in Springfield (1837-1841)
- "It would just kill me to marry Mary Todd": courtship and marriage (1840-1842)
- "I have got the preacher by the balls": pursuing a seat in congress (1843-1847)
- "A strong but judicious enemy to slavery": Congressman Lincoln (1847-1849)
- "I was losing interest in politics and went to the practice of law with greater earnestness than ever before": confronting mortality (1849-1854)
- "Aroused as he had never been before": reentering politics, (1854-1855)
- "Unite with us, and help us to triumph": building the Illinois Republican Party (1855-1857)
- "A house divided": Lincoln vs. Douglas (1857-1858)
- "A David greater than the Democratic Goliath": The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
- That presidential grub gnaws deep: pursuing the Republican nomination (1859-1860)
- "The most available presidential candidate for unadulterated Republicans": The Chicago Convention (May 1860)
- "I have been elected mainly on the cry 'honest old Abe'": the presidential campaign (May- November 1860)
- "I will suffer death before I will consent to any concession or compromise": President-elect in Springfield, 1860-1861
- "What if I appoint Cameron, whose very name stinks in the nostrils of the people for his corruption?": cabinet-making in Springfield, 1860-1861.