Format:
xii, 703 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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25 cm
Edition:
[Abridged edition]
ISBN:
9781421445557
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1421445557
Content:
"Michael Burlingame is one of the foremost authorities on Abraham Lincoln in the world; as James McPherson wrote in The New York Review of Books, "The author knows more about Lincoln than any other living person." The author or editor of over a dozen volumes about Lincoln, he is the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield. This book represents an abridgement of his magisterial 2-volume Lincoln biography, Abraham Lincoln: A Life, which was first published in 2008 as a hardcover set and in 2013 as separate paperbacks and ebooks. In these pages, Burlingame treats Lincoln's childhood and early development, frontier experiences as a farm boy (with an abusive father) in the rugged Indiana and Illinois country of the early nineteenth century, romantic attachments and losses; his acquired love of learning, legal training, courtroom career; his political ambition, term as congressman in the late 1840s, subsequent defeat and serious bouts of depression in the 1850s. Burlingame depicts, without rose-colored glasses, the Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln marriage. He recovers, in fresh detail, Lincoln's early race baiting and traces the mounting moral criticism of slavery that revived a political career and won this Springfield lawyer the presidency, with a Republican plurality, in 1860. This abridgement delivers Burlingame's signature insight into Lincoln as young man, father, and politician"--
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First published in 2 volumes by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2008
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"I have seen a good deal of the back side of this world" : childhood in Kentucky (1809-1816) -- "I used to be a slave" : boyhood and adolescence in Indiana (1816-1830) -- "Separated from his father, he studied English grammar" : New Salem (1831-1834) -- "A Napoleon of astuteness and political finesse" : frontier legislator (1834-1837) -- "We must fight the devil with fire" : slasher-gaff politico in Springfield (1837-1841) -- "It would just kill me to marry Mary Todd" : courtship and marriage (1840-1842) -- "I have got the preacher by the balls" : pursuing a seat in Congress (1843-1847) -- "A strong but judicious enemy to slavery" : Congressman Lincoln (1847-1849) -- "I was losing interest in politics and went to the practice of law with greater earnestness than ever before" : mid-life crisis (1849-1854) -- "Aroused as he had never been before" : reentering politics (1854-1855) -- "Unite with us, and help us to triumph" : building the Illinois Republican Party (1855-1857) --
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"A house divided" : Lincoln vs. Douglas (1857-1858) -- "A David greater than the Democratic Goliath" : The Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858) -- That presidential grub gnaws deep : pursuing the Republican nomination (1859-1860) -- "The most available presidential candidate for unadulterated Republicans" : The Chicago convention (May 1860) -- "I have been elected mainly on the cry 'honest old Abe'" : the presidential campaign (May-November 1860) -- "I will suffer death before i will consent to any concession or compromise" : president-elect in Springfield (1860-1861) -- "What If I appoint Cameron, whose very name stinks in the nostrils of the people for his corruption?" : Cabinet-making in Springfield (1860-1861) -- "The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am, but it may be necessary to put the foot down firmly" : From Springfield to Washington (February 11-22, 1861) -- "I am now going to be master" : inauguration (February 23-March 4, 1861) --
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"A man so busy letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning in the other": distributing patronage (March-April 1861) -- "You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors" : the Fort Sumter Crisis (March-April 1861) -- "I intend to give blows" : the hundred days (April-July 1861) -- Sitzkrieg : the phony war (August 1861-January 1862) -- "This damned old house" : The Lincoln family in the executive mansion -- "I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till i die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me" : From the Slough of Despond to the gates of Richmond (January-July, 1862) -- "The hour comes for dealing with slavery" : playing the last trump card (January-July 1862) -- "Would you prosecute the war with elder-stalk squirts, charged with rose water?" : The soft war turns hard (July-September 1862) --
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"I am not a bold man, but i have the knack of sticking to my promises!" : The Emancipation Proclamation (September-December 1862) -- "Go forward, and give us victories" : from the mud march to Gettysburg (January-July 1863) -- "The signs look better" : victory at the polls and in the field (July-November 1863) -- "I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause" : Reconstruction and renomination (November 1863-June 1864) -- "Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible" : the grand offensive (May-August 1864) -- "The wisest radical of all" : reelection (September-November 1864) -- "Let the thing be pressed" : victory at last (November 1864-April 8, 1865) -- "This war is eating my life out; I have a strong impression that i shall not live to see the end" : (April 9-15, 1865)
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-4214-4556-4
Language:
English
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