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Becoming Lincoln /

"A biographical account of Abraham Lincoln's rises and falls on his improbable path to becoming the president who ended slavery"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Freehling, William W., 1935- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville, VA : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Prologue : A puzzling inauguration
  • The rising Lincolns and the Kentucky plummet
  • The Indiana plunge
  • The Illinois crash
  • The New Salem recovery
  • The rise and fall of a state legislator
  • The rise and limits of a pre-1850s lawyer
  • The rise and turbulence of a marriage
  • A congressional aspirant's rise
  • The Congressional fall
  • The Union's economic rescue
  • Three climactic railroad cases
  • The Peoria address and the strategy of defense
  • The 1855 setback
  • The lost/found speech
  • The Dred Scott case and the Kansas finale
  • The great debates
  • The cunning revisions
  • The Cooper Union address
  • The Presidential election and the fruits of revision
  • The erratic interregnum
  • The troubled inaugural address
  • Forts Sumter and Pickens and the emergence of an impressive administrator
  • Epilogue : (Slowly) becoming a coercive emancipator.