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Abraham Lincoln : The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay /
In 1890 Abraham Lincoln's two main White House secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, published the ten-volume biography Abraham Lincoln: A History. Although the authors witnessed the daily events occurring within the executive mansion and the national Capitol, their lengthy biography is mo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | In 1890 Abraham Lincoln's two main White House secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, published the ten-volume biography Abraham Lincoln: A History. Although the authors witnessed the daily events occurring within the executive mansion and the national Capitol, their lengthy biography is more a recounting of the Civil War era than a study of Lincoln's life. Editor Michael Burlingame sifted through the original forty-seven-hundred-page work and selected only the personal observations of the secretaries during the Lincoln presidency, placing ten excerpts in c. |
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| Item Description: | Excerpts from: Abraham Lincoln : a history / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780809387403 |