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Abraham Lincoln : a life. Vol. 1 / Michael Burlingame

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Burlingame, Michael, 1941-
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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1 online resource (1,034 pages) : illustrations, portraits
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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": confronting mortality (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) -- "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.
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9780801894671 (electronic bk.)
0801894670 (electronic bk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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