The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words 9780307796851

The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words 9780307796851, 030779685X

The fact that Abraham Lincoln is now universally recognized as America’s greatest political orator would have surprised

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Portrait for Posterity - Lincoln and His Biographers

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Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait 9780823295104

This striking portrait of Abraham Lincoln found in this book is drawn entirely from the writing of his contemporaries an

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Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln 9780804764889

This is the first comprehensive collection of remarks attributed to Abraham Lincoln by his contemporaries. Much of what

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Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President 9781984855107

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Portrait of a City: Lincoln, Nebraska, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 149623412X, 9781496234124

Once just a scattering of houses on the open prairie, by the late nineteenth century the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, had

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Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861 2008021520, 9780743289474, 9780743289481, 9781416594406

One of our most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln at Cooper Union, examines the four m

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Lincoln Before Lincoln : Early Cinematic Adaptations of the Life of America's Greatest President [1 ed.] 9780813167497, 9780813167473

Remembered as the Savior of the Union, Abraham Lincoln is one of America's most revered presidents. There have been

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In Search of Captain Cook: Exploring the Man Through His Own Words 9780755624904, 9781845114831

Captain James Cook was the greatest explorer of his age, perhaps of any age. He was a leader of men, a master voyager wh

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Exploring Lincoln: Great Historians Reappraise Our Greatest President 9780823265657

Ubiquitous and enigmatic, the historical Lincoln, the literary Lincoln, even the cinematic Lincoln have all proved both

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