Screen LibraryBecoming Lincoln /
"A biographical account of Abraham Lincoln's rises and falls on his improbable path to becoming the president who ended slavery"--
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University of Virginia Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Charlottesville, VA : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"A biographical account of Abraham Lincoln's rises and falls on his improbable path to becoming the president who ended slavery"-- Freehling shows how the prewar years forged Lincoln into the extraordinary leader who would guide the nation through its most bitter chapter. From his childhood and difficult family life through the setbacks and recoveries Lincoln experienced, we witness Lincoln's embodiment of the self-made man even as he sought and received critical help from others. In doing so Freehling unfolds new impressions of the American nineteenth century, the emergence of our national economy, the causes of the Civil War, and Lincoln's wartime presidency. -- adapted from jacket |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780813941561 (hardback) : 0813941563 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | E457 |
| CLC: | K837.127 |
| Call Number: | K837.127/L736F-1 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Prologue : A puzzling inauguration -- The rising Lincolns and the Kentucky plummet -- The Indiana plunge -- The Illinois crash -- The New Salem recovery -- The rise and fall of a state legislator -- The rise and limits of a pre-1850s lawyer -- The rise and turbulence of a marriage -- A congressional aspirant's rise -- The Congressional fall -- The Union's economic rescue -- Three climactic railroad cases -- The Peoria address and the strategy of defense -- The 1855 setback -- The lost/found speech -- The Dred Scott case and the Kansas finale -- The great debates -- The cunning revisions -- The Cooper Union address -- The Presidential election and the fruits of revision -- The erratic interregnum -- The troubled inaugural address -- Forts Sumter and Pickens and the emergence of an impressive administrator -- Epilogue : (Slowly) becoming a coercive emancipator. |