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Author : Victor Searcher
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lincoln's Journey to Greatness written by Victor Searcher and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of the 1861 train trip by Lincoln to Washington, D.C. leading up to the inauguration.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Greatness written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : U. S. National Park Service
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265988169
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Greatness (Classic Reprint) written by U. S. National Park Service and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Greatness Lincoln lost the 1858 senate race to Douglas, but the fame of the Lincoln Douglass debates, which had drawn national newspaper coverage, made him a rising star in the new Republican Party. He spent the next two years on the stump speaking in Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, New York, and in New England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : David Von Drehle
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 080507970X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Rise to Greatness written by David Von Drehle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Von Drehle has chosen a critical year ('the most eventful year in American history' and the year Lincoln rose to greatness), done his homework, and written a spirited account."N"Publishers Weekly."
Author : Joshua Wolf Shenk
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054752689X
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Lincoln's Melancholy written by Joshua Wolf Shenk and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-10-02 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nuanced psychological portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles. Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk’s Lincoln’s Melancholy reveals how this illness influenced both the President’s character and his leadership. Mired in personal suffering as a young man, Lincoln forged a hard path toward mental health. Shenk draws on seven years of research from historical record, interviews with Lincoln scholars, and contemporary research on depression to understand the nature of Lincoln’s unhappiness. In the process, Shenk discovers that the President’s coping strategies—among them, a rich sense of humor and a tendency toward quiet reflection—ultimately helped him to lead the nation through its greatest turmoil. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post Book World, Atlanta Journal-Constituion, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette As Featured on the History Channel documentary Lincoln “Fresh, fascinating, provocative.”—Sanford D. Horwitt, San Francisco Chronicle “Some extremely beautiful prose and fine political rhetoric and leaves one feeling close to Lincoln, a considerable accomplishment.”—Andrew Solomon, New York Magazine “A profoundly human and psychologically important examination of the melancholy that so pervaded Lincoln's life.”—Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., author of An Unquiet Mind
Author : Kees de Mooy
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 0806540001
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln written by Kees de Mooy and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men and women who shaped our world—in their own words. The Wisdom Library invites you on a journey through the lives and works of the world’s greatest thinkers and leaders. Compiled by scholars, this series presents excerpts from the most important and revealing writings of the most remarkable minds of all time. THE WISDOM OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” —Abraham Lincoln Politician. Statesman. Civil rights leader. Literary craftsman. For a century and a half, the life—and words—of 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, have been praised as a shining example of American leadership. But Lincoln’s path to greatness was a humble one. The son of a frontier farmer, Lincoln was largely self-educated. When he took the national stage as a politician, his simple, straightforward prose was revolutionary for its time—resonating with men and women from all walks of life. In fact, with his “jogtrot prose, compacted of words and phrases still with the bark on,” Lincoln almost single-handedly changed the way the English language is spoken in America. And while he will always be remembered as the man dedicated to restoring a shattered Union, and—with the Thirteenth Amendment—freeing slaves, Lincoln was also one of the greatest communicators this country has ever seen. Now, in this one essential volume, excerpts have been collected from all of Lincoln’s finest documents, letters, and, of course, speeches like his famous Gettysburg Address. The Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln pays tribute to the president and patriot who, through both his words and deeds, changed the course of history.
Author : Don Edward Fehrenbacher
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Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prelude to Greatness written by Don Edward Fehrenbacher and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William K. Klingaman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101218703
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, 1861-1865 written by William K. Klingaman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-03-19 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive account of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, William K. Klingaman takes a fresh look at what is arguably the most controversial reform in American history. Taking the reader from Lincoln's inauguration through the Civil War to his tragic assassination, it uncovers the complex political and psychological pressures facing Lincoln in his consideration of the slavery question, including his decision to issue the proclamation without consulting any member of his cabinet, and his meticulous attention to every word of the document. The book concludes with a discussion of what the Emancipation Proclamation really meant to four million newly freed blacks and its subsequent impact on race relations in America.
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ISBN 13 : 9781590911914
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Planetary Apothecary written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Ecelbarger
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429933852
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Great Comeback written by Gary Ecelbarger and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1858, Abraham Lincoln looked to be anything but destined for greatness. Just shy of his fiftieth birthday, Lincoln was wallowing in the depths of despair following his loss to Stephen Douglas in the 1858 senatorial campaign and was taking stock in his life. The author takes us on a journey with Abraham Lincoln from the last weeks of 1858 until the end of May in 1860, on the road to his unlikely Republication presidential nomination. In tracing Lincoln's steps from city to city, from one public appearance to the next along the campaign trail, we see the future president shape and polish his public persona. Although he had accounted himself well in the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, the man from Springfield, Illinois, he was nevertheless seen as the darkest of dark horses for the highest office in the land. Upon hearing Lincoln speak, one contemporary said, "I will not say he reminded me of Satan, but he certainly was the ungodliest figure I had ever seen." The reader sees how this "ungodliest" of figures shrewdly spun his platform to crowds far and wide and, in doing so, became a public celebrity on par with any throughout the land. This is a story teeming with drama and intrigue about an event that no one could fathom occurring today...yet it absolutely happened in with America seven score and eight years ago, when Lincoln, the man, took his first steps on the way toward becoming Abraham Lincoln, the legendary leader and most respected president of American history.
Author : Helen Nicolay
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln written by Helen Nicolay and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln" by Helen Nicolay. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Harold Holzer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141659440X
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Lincoln President-Elect written by Harold Holzer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln at Cooper Union, examines the four months between Lincoln's election and inauguration, when the president-elect made the most important decision of his coming presidency—there would be no compromise on slavery or secession of the slaveholding states, even at the cost of civil war. Abraham Lincoln first demonstrated his determination and leadership in the Great Secession Winter—the four months between his election in November 1860 and his inauguration in March 1861—when he rejected compromises urged on him by Republicans and Democrats, Northerners and Southerners, that might have preserved the Union a little longer but would have enshrined slavery for generations. Though Lincoln has been criticized by many historians for failing to appreciate the severity of the secession crisis that greeted his victory, Harold Holzer shows that the presidentelect waged a shrewd and complex campaign to prevent the expansion of slavery while vainly trying to limit secession to a few Deep South states. During this most dangerous White House transition in American history, the country had two presidents: one powerless (the president-elect, possessing no constitutional authority), the other paralyzed (the incumbent who refused to act). Through limited, brilliantly timed and crafted public statements, determined private letters, tough political pressure, and personal persuasion, Lincoln guaranteed the integrity of the American political process of majority rule, sounded the death knell of slavery, and transformed not only his own image but that of the presidency, even while making inevitable the war that would be necessary to make these achievements permanent. Lincoln President-Elect is the first book to concentrate on Lincoln's public stance and private agony during these months and on the momentous consequences when he first demonstrated his determination and leadership. Holzer recasts Lincoln from an isolated prairie politician yet to establish his greatness, to a skillful shaper of men and opinion and an immovable friend of freedom at a decisive moment when allegiance to the founding credo "all men are created equal" might well have been sacrificed.
Author : Wayne Whipple
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1681955385
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)
Download or read book The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln written by Wayne Whipple and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journey of a Young Man from Rags to Greatness Using interviews with people who knew the Great Abraham Lincoln, Wayne Whipple tries to build a character as great as the 16th President of the United States. Follow his journey from a motherless boy living in a humble hut to his great challenges that ultimately built his magnificent personality and prepared him for his final battle, the battle that would change America forever. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes.
Author : Ted Widmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476739455
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Lincoln on the Verge written by Ted Widmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE LINCOLN FORUM BOOK PRIZE “A Lincoln classic...superb.” —The Washington Post “A book for our time.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin Lincoln on the Verge tells the dramatic story of America’s greatest president discovering his own strength to save the Republic. As a divided nation plunges into the deepest crisis in its history, Abraham Lincoln boards a train for Washington and his inauguration—an inauguration Southerners have vowed to prevent. Lincoln on the Verge charts these pivotal thirteen days of travel, as Lincoln discovers his power, speaks directly to the public, and sees his country up close. Drawing on new research, this riveting account reveals the president-elect as a work in progress, showing him on the verge of greatness, as he foils an assassination attempt, forges an unbreakable bond with the American people, and overcomes formidable obstacles in order to take his oath of office.
Author : Roy Prentice Basler
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Touchstone for Greatness written by Roy Prentice Basler and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1973-04-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Drinkwater
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln: A Play written by John Drinkwater and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abraham Lincoln: A Play" by John Drinkwater is a compelling dramatic portrayal of the life and legacy of one of America's most revered presidents. Through vivid language and powerful imagery, Drinkwater brings to life the towering figure of Abraham Lincoln, capturing his humanity, wisdom, and courage in the face of adversity. The play explores Lincoln's journey from humble beginnings to his pivotal role in leading the nation through the tumultuous era of the Civil War. With its stirring dialogue and insightful characterizations, "Abraham Lincoln" offers a nuanced and intimate portrait of a man who rose to greatness against all odds. Through its exploration of themes such as freedom, justice, and the power of leadership, Drinkwater's play celebrates Lincoln's enduring legacy as a symbol of hope and inspiration for generations to come.
Author : Stephen Mansfield
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 159555419X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Lincoln's Battle with God written by Stephen Mansfield and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join New York Times bestselling author Stephen Mansfield as he dives into the incredible story of Abraham Lincoln's spiritual life and draws from it a deeper meaning that's sure to inspire us all. Abraham Lincoln is, undoubtedly, among the most beloved of all U.S. presidents. He helped to abolish slavery, gave the world some of its most memorable speeches, and redefined the meaning of America. He did all of this with endless wisdom, compassion, and wit. Yet, throughout his life, Lincoln fought with God. In his early years in Illinois, he rejected even the existence of God and became the village atheist. In time, this changed but still, he wrestled with the truth of the Bible, preachers, doctrines, the will of God, the providence of God, and then, finally, God's purposes in the Civil War. Still, on the day he was shot, Lincoln said he longed to go to Jerusalem to walk in the Savior's steps. In this thrilling journey through a largely unknown part of American history, Mansfield traces Lincoln's exploring: Lincoln's lifelong spiritual journey The ways that Lincoln's faith shaped his presidency and beyond How Lincoln's struggle with faith can inspire modern believers Let Lincoln's Battle with God show you Lincoln's life and legacy in a brand new light.
