[PDF] The Age Of Lincoln eBook

Author : Orville Vernon Burton
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 2008-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1429939559

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Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Abolishing slavery, the age's most extraordinary accomplishment, was not its most profound. The enduring legacy of the age of Lincoln was inscribing personal liberty into the nation's millennial aspirations. America has always perceived providence in its progress, but in the 1840s and 1850s pessimism accompanied marked extremism, as Millerites predicted the Second Coming, utopianists planned perfection, Southerners made slavery an inviolable honor, and Northerners conflated Manifest Destiny with free-market opportunity. Even amid historic political compromises the middle ground collapsed. In a remarkable reappraisal of Lincoln, the distinguished historian Orville Vernon Burton shows how the president's authentic Southernness empowered him to conduct a civil war that redefined freedom as a personal right to be expanded to all Americans. In the violent decades to follow, the extent of that freedom would be contested but not its central place in what defined the country. Presenting a fresh conceptualization of the defining decades of modern America, The Age of Lincoln is narrative history of the highest order.

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393306125

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In conjunction with a ten-year exhibit at the Chicago Historical Society, beginning January 1990.

Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1430130369

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"This presentation of the pertinent facts of the life, times, and importance of the sixteenth president of the United States is a good starting point for children beginning history studies and biographies." - School Library Journal

Author : Janet B. Pascal
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1440688133

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Born to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an early age—literally! (He was six feet four inches tall.) As sixteenth President of the United States, he guided the nation through the Civil War and saw the abolition of slavery. But Lincoln was tragically shot one night at Ford’s Theater—the first President to be assassinated. Over 100 black-and-white illustrations and maps are included.

Author : Adam Gopnik
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2009-01-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307271218

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In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of man’s place in the world. Here Gopnik reveals these two men as they really were: family men and social climbers, ambitious manipulators and courageous adventurers, grieving parents and brilliant scholars. Above all we see them as thinkers and writers, making and witnessing the great changes in thought that mark truly modern times.

Author : Brad Meltzer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0525552952

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The littlest readers can learn about Abraham Lincoln in this board book version of the New York Times bestselling Ordinary People Change the World biography. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great—the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. In this new board book format, the very youngest readers can learn about one of America's icons in the series's signature lively, conversational style. The short text focuses on drawing inspiration from these iconic heroes, and includes an interactive element and factual tidbits that young kids will be able to connect with. This volume tells the story of Abraham Lincoln, America's sixteenth president.

Author : Jim Aylesworth
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0439925487

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"Rhythmic verse tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's life, from his childhood in the wilderness of Illinois to his famous achievements as president"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Orville Vernon Burton
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781437968477

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An original account of the 7 decades, 1830 through 1900, that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Abolishing slavery, the age¿s most extraordinary accomplishment, was not its most profound triumph. The enduring legacy of the Age of Lincoln was inscribing, with the 13th, 14th, and 15th amend., personal liberty into the nation¿s Constitution. Here, Burton argues that the president¿s authentic southernness empowered him to conduct a civil war that redefined freedom as a personal right to be extended to all Americans. Yet even as the anti-democratic policies of Jim Crow began to settle over the land, Lincoln¿s people put their faith in the law and continued to work on redrawing freedom¿s boundaries. Illustrations.

Author : John Avlon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1982108142

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A groundbreaking and “affecting and powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Abraham Lincoln’s plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War—a vision that inspired future presidents as well as the world’s most famous peacemakers. As the tide of the Civil War turned in the spring of 1865, Abraham Lincoln took a dangerous two-week trip to visit the troops on the front lines accompanied by his young son, seeing combat up close, meeting liberated slaves in the ruins of Richmond, and comforting wounded Union and Confederate soldiers. The power of Lincoln’s personal example in the closing days of the war offers a portrait of a peacemaker. He did not demonize people he disagreed with. He used humor, logic, and scripture to depolarize bitter debates. Balancing moral courage with moderation, Lincoln believed that decency could be the most practical form of politics, but he understood that people were more inclined to listen to reason when greeted from a position of strength. Ulysses S. Grant’s famously generous terms of surrender to General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox that April were an expression of a president’s belief that a soft peace should follow a hard war. While his assassination sent the country careening off course, Lincoln’s vision would be vindicated long after his death, inspiring future generations in their own quests to secure a just and lasting peace. As US General Lucius Clay, architect of the post-WWII German occupation said when asked what guided his decisions: “I tried to think of the kind of occupation the South would have had if Abraham Lincoln had lived.” Lincoln and the Fight for Peace reveals with “its graceful prose and wise insights” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America) how Lincoln’s character informed his commitment to unconditional surrender followed by a magnanimous peace. Even during the Civil War, surrounded by reactionaries and radicals, he refused to back down from his belief that there is more that unites us than divides us. But he also understood that peace needs to be waged with as much intensity as war. Lincoln’s plan to win the peace is his unfinished symphony, but in its existing notes, we can find an anthem that can begin to bridge our divisions today.

Author : Nancy Joan Weiss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 1983-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691101514

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This book examines a remarkable political phenomenon--the dramatic shift of black voters from the Republican to the Democratic party in the 1930s, a shift all the more striking in light of the Democrats' indifference to racial concerns. Nancy J. Weiss shows that blacks became Democrats in response to the economic benefits of the New Deal and that they voted for Franklin Roosevelt in spite of the New Deal's lack of a substantive record on race. By their support for FDR blacks forged a political commitment to the Democratic party that has lasted to our own time. The last group to join the New Deal coalition, they have been the group that remained the most loyal to the Democratic party. This book explains the sources of their commitment in the 1930s. It stresses the central role of economic concerns in shaping black political behavior and clarifies both the New Deal record on race and the extraordinary relationship between black voters and the Roosevelts.