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Abraham Lincoln: A Biography

by Benjamin P. Thomas. 560 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Benjamin P. Thomas

Publisher:

   Alfred Knopf

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1952
Subjects:   Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865
Table of contents
CONTENTS
I "The Short and Simple Annals of the Poor" 3
II Young Man on His Own 23
III Frontier Legislator: His Love Affairs 44
IV Courtship and Marriage 81
V Lawyer--Politician 92
VI The Gentleman from Illinois 111
VII Echoes of National Conflict 130
VIII Lincoln Re-enters Politics 144
IX A Political Plunge 161
X Defeated for the Senate 171
XI The Making of a President 194
XII Peace or a Sword 226
XIII A War for Democracy 257
XIV Shadows on the White House 284
XV McClellan in Command 305
XVI "The Occasion is Piled High with Difficulty" 335
XVII The Signs Look Better 376
XVIII "There Are No Lincoln Men" 409
XIX Profile of a President 456
XX To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds 487
Lincoln Literature 523
INDEX
Illustrations
The Lincoln of the Gettysburg Address frontispiece
A part of the village of New Salem
The Illinois Capitol at Vandalia 51
The Illinois Statehouse in Springfield 51
Congressman Abraham Lincoln 146
Stephen A. Douglas 147
The Lincoln of the Great Debates 178
The Lincoln home 179
The west front of the Capitol in 1860 179
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address 242
Mary Todd Lincoln 243
General Winfield Scott and his staff in 1861 274
William Henry Seward, Secretary of State 275
Salmon Portland Chase, Secretary of the Treasury 275
Edwin McMasters Stanton, Secretary of War 275
Postmaster General Montgomery Blair 275
The East Room of the White House 306
The south front of the White House 306
Tad Lincoln in his officer's uniform 307
Lincoln at McClellan's headquarters 338
The Long Bridge to Virginia 339
The procession to Gettysburg Cemetery 402
The cottage at the Soldiers' Home 403
Lincoln in early 1864 434
The Second Inaugural Address 435
Fort Stevens, where Lincoln came under enemy fire 466
Grant's base at City Point 467
A careworn President 498
The interior of Ford's Theater 499
Richmond and Vicinity 317
Washington and Vicinity 322-3
The Mississippi Theater 371
The Southeastern Theater 437
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Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 1809-1865 - Vol. 1
Book by Earl Schenck Miers, William E. Baringer; Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Chronology
...CHRONOLOGY 1809-1865 EARL...VOLUME I: 1809-1848 WILLIAM...Washington: 1960 LINCOLN SEQUICENTENNIAL...wound, Abraham Lincoln already...secretary of the Abraham Lincoln Association...Lincoln 1809-1839 by...Rhode Island. Abraham Lincoln 1809-1848 Glossary...
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Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 1809-1865 - Vol. 2
Book by Earl Schenck Miers, William E. Baringer; Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Chronology
...A CHRONOLOGY 1809-1865 EARL SCHENCK...Washington : 1960 LINCOLN SESQUICENTENNIAL...Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln , Roy...the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Library of Congress...ISLA--The Abraham Lincoln Association...
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Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 1809-1865 - Vol. 2
Book by Earl Schenck Miers, William E. Baringer; Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Chronology
...A CHRONOLOGY 1809-1865 EARL SCHENCK...Washington: 1960 LINCOLN SESQUICENTENNIAL...Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln , Roy...the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Library of Congress...ISLA -- The Abraham Lincoln Association...
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Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858 - Vol. 1
Book by Albert J. Beveridge; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865
...Memoirs, 1809-1896 . Ed...Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865 . Edited...centering about 1809. 1 He Abraham Lincoln was born...June 20, 1865. Weik MSS...older than Abraham Lincoln, told him...July 5, 1865; Friend...1 horse; 1809-10, 2 horses...
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Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
Book by Roy P. Basler, Abraham Lincoln; World Publishing, 1946
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources, United States--Politics And Government--1861-1865
...December, 1937; Roy P. Basler, "The Authorship of the Rebecca Letters", The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly , June, 1942. Harry E. Pratt, Lincoln , 1809- 1839, p. lviii. The name of this newspaper was originally Sangamon...
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journal articles on: (Lincoln Abraham 1809 1865)  - 33 results

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Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865
Journal article by Michael Fellman; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 69, 2003
Subjects: Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865 (Book)
...Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865. by Michael Fellman...-1137-1.) Although comparing Abraham Lincoln (the winner) to Jefferson...accepted image of Father Abraham only by downplaying such...nationalist orations as Lincolns inaugural and Gettysburg...
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Understanding Lincoln
Journal article by Matthew Pinsker; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Judging Lincoln (Book), Lincoln & Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865 (Book), The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War (Book)--Book reviews
...Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an...Imagining America, 1809-1865. By Brian R. Dirck...nationalist visions of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis...never really understood Abraham Lincoln" (p. 246). The implication...
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The Role of Abraham Lincoln in Securing a Charter for a Homeopathic Medical College
Journal article by Allen D. Spiegel, Florence Kavaler; Journal of Community Health, Vol. 27, 2002
Subjects: Homeopathy--History, Lincoln, Abraham--Political aspects, Medical education--History
...Day. A Chronology 1809-1865. Washington, DC: Lincoln Sesquicentennial...Bulletin of the Abraham Lincoln Association...Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. New Brunswick...48.) Brown CL. Abraham Lincoln and the Illinois...
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"Unbeknownst" to Lincoln; a Note on Radical Pacification in Missouri during the Civil War
Journal article by Mark E. Neely Jr.; Civil War History, Vol. 44, 1998
Subjects: Civil war--History, Lincoln, Abraham--Military policy, Missouri--History, Quantrill, William--Conduct of life, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...Miers, ed., Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 1809-1865, 3 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960), 3:202. William...Anecdotes from Original Sources by and about Abraham Lincoln (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press...
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Abraham Lincoln's Suit against a Medical Imposter Who Assaulted His Client
Journal article by Allen D. Spiegel, Florence Kavaler; Journal of Community Health, Vol. 26, 2001
Subjects: Assault and battery--Cases, Impostors and imposture--Cases, Jones, Edward--Cases, Lincoln, Abraham--Cases, Maus, Joseph S.--Cases, Medical law--History, Physicians--Certification
...Day-by-Day. A Chronology 1809-1865 Washington, DC: Lincoln Sesquicentennial...31. Cooper JH. Abraham Lincoln wasnt a yuppie...Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln New Brunswick, NJ...Spiegel AD, Kavaler F. Abraham Lincoln, medical jurisprudence...
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Abraham Lincoln & the Last Best Hope
Magazine article by Jean Bethke Elshtain; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, November 1999
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham--Conduct of life, Politicians--Moral and ethical aspects, Politics--Moral and ethical aspects, Slavery--History
...attend to the words of Lincoln. Recall the Second Inaugural Address of March 4, 1865, little more than a month...freedom and justice, Abraham Lincoln was President of these...in hoping for another Abraham Lincoln. But one may hope that...
2.
President and Accounted For
Magazine article by Glenn Speer; Book, September 2000
Subjects: Book selection--Statistics, Presidents--Biography
...4 James Madison (1809-1817) Ralph Ketcham...Philip S. Klein 16 Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865) David Herbert Donald...Buchanan: A Biography 16 Abraham Lincoln Lincoln...
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The Howard University Department of History, 1913-1973
Magazine article by Michael R. Winston; Negro History Bulletin, July 1998
Subjects: Howard University--History, Universities and colleges--History
...Morgan State, Virginia State, Lincoln, Cambridge, Massachusetts...on April 26, 1961, however, Abraham Ribicoff, the Secretary of...upon. United States History to 1865; United States History since...Board of Foreign Scholarships, Lincoln Lecturers. (Typescript in Moorland-Spingarn...
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The Op-Ed History of America
Magazine article by Michael Lind; The National Interest, Fall 1994
Subjects: History--Study and teaching, International relations--History
...his own Embargo of 1807-1809. Placed on U.S.-European...power, in the form of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party...American politicians from 1865-1945. In 1888, presidential...Tariff of 1892? And maybe Lincolns Civil War tariffs--by...


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Abraham Lincoln's Legend Lives on in Illinois
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 11, 2004
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham
...bring them the real facts." -Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). Lincoln, the 16th president...to be the last man to shave Abraham Lincoln. Illinois largest Civil War...the days events will be an Abraham Lincoln re- enactor, mingling with...
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Emancipation Act Transforms Conflict, Nation; Abraham Lincoln's Legacy Includes Homestead Law and Colleges, as Well
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 8, 2003
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham
...the birth of Abraham Lincoln. It was a...Sunday in 1809 when the baby...followed in late 1865 by the 13th...the Union in 1865, along the...enterprise, Lincoln truly stands...Assassination of Abraham Lincoln...Springs, W.Va. Abraham Lincoln dramatically...
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Lincoln Birthday Marked on Mall; Bush Recalls Leader's Values
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 13, 2005
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham
...birthday. "Abraham Lincolns mystic dream...assassinated April 14, 1865, during his...born Feb. 12, 1809, in Kentucky...director of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial...speech, in 1865, is engraved...ceremony to honor Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln...
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Lincoln's Major Debut
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 9, 2008
Subjects: Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
...Davis was born in 1808, Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809, and Frederick Douglass...The war ended in April 1865 and a new America was...The 13th Amendment of 1865 abolished slavery; the...simple fact that had Lincoln won the Lincoln-Douglas...
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Celebrated Preacher with a Flamboyant Personal Life
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 30, 2006
...vigorously opposed slavery, and Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) who fought a war to abolish...famous, such as Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln. Aspects of Beechers place in...efforts of an anguished President Lincoln deal with the problem. The two...
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encyclopedia articles on: (Lincoln Abraham 1809 1865)  - 3 results

 
 
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Lincoln, Abraham
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...on Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin...father, Thomas Lincoln, was a migratory...to the boy. Abraham had almost...of Apr. 14, 1865, when attending...10-volume Abraham Lincoln: A History...Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie...
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Danville
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...manufacturing have become predominant. Abraham Lincoln maintained a law office in Danville...Dr. Ephraim McDowell House, scene (1809) of the first ovariotomy. Centre...hospital, and a prison camp. In Apr., 1865, Jefferson Davis and his cabinet...
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Presidents of the United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1809 17 George Clinton, 1809 12 (no Vice President...John C. Breckinridge Abraham Lincoln Republican 1861 65 Hannibal...1861 65 Andrew Johnson, 1865 Andrew Johnson Democratic/National Union 1865 69 (no Vice President...


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