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(0)Edward L. Widmer
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
On the eve of his fifty-second birthday, February 11, 1861, the president-elect of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, walked onto a train in Springfield, Illinois , the first step of a 1,900 mile journey to the White House, and his rendezvous with destiny. From the moment the Presidential Special left the station, a new Lincoln was on display, speaking constantly, from a moving train, to save the Republic. The journey would draw on all of Lincoln's...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A uniquely unscripted, insider account of Kennedy and his cabinet grappling with the day-to-day business of the White House and guiding the nation through a hazardous era of uncertainty. Features extensively annotated transcripts of the recordings and a foreword by Caroline Kennedy.