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Cotton Malone novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
A high-stakes thriller featuring former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone finds him tackling the secrets of Mormonism, a U.S. Senator's stealthy secession plan, and a history-shaping letter that was handed down through the chief executive line.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An unprecedented view of Lincoln's Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank. Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on President Lincoln Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration. The...
Author
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
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Railsplitter, the seventh collection from Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Guggenheim Fellow Maurice Manning, envisions the role of poetry in the life of Abraham Lincoln. Manning, who writes each piece in Lincolns persona, provides a lasting reflection on how poetry guided and shaped the Presidents mind while leading a divided nation. Equal parts prophetic and rich in both rural folklore and literary allusionsfrom Shakespeare, to Whitman, to Poe, to the...
11) Mourning Lincoln
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons. Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve into the personal and intimate responses of everyday peoplenortherners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, black people...
12) Abraham Lincoln
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A simple biography of the Illinois lawyer who served the country as president through the difficulties of the Civil War.
Publisher
NGHT, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Was Abraham Lincoln dying of cancer when he was killed? National Geographic is on the front lines as scientists attempt to solve a genetic mystery - using a piece of fabric stained with the president's blood to run DNA analysis. The final year of Lincoln's life seemed to age him a decade, and he had lost an alarming amount of weight. Even today, his strange body shape, unusual height and long limbs have led to speculation that he harbored some hidden...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told through the eyes of a young boy, the sober mood of the country after the Lincoln assassination is presented as he and many other mourners await to pay their respects to their fallen president as Lincoln's funeral train travels from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, IL in 1865.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With the help of his teacher, a young boy realizes that he not only shares his birthday and similar physical appearance with Abraham Lincoln, but that he is like him in other ways as well.
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