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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political acumen of Abraham Lincoln via sixteen encounters before and during his presidency, bringing to light not only the strategy of a great politician who inherited a country divided, but lessons for our own disorderly present. In 1855, as the United States found itself at odds over the issue of slavery, then lawyer Abraham Lincoln composed a note on the...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed Lincoln historian presents a groundbreaking examination of how immigration in the decades before the civil led to enormous changes in the political landscape, destroyed the Whig party and exacerbated tensions in the country.
"In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation’s demographics, culture, and—perhaps most significantly—voting patterns....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today-by best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament, judgment, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War, we know...
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