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Barcode30053003293878
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoB LINC
Title Becoming Lincoln / William W. Freehling.
Author Freehling, William W., 1935- author.
CollectionAdult Biography
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003293878B LINC7/23/2020 Available

Catalog Details

Personal Name Freehling, William W., 1935- author.
Title Statement Becoming Lincoln / William W. Freehling.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Physical Description x, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Content Type text rdacontent
Media Type unmediated rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-347) and index.
Formatted Contents Note 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.
Summary, Etc. "A biographical account of Abraham Lincoln's rises and falls on his improbable path to becoming the president who ended slavery" -- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Subject-Personal Name Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Presidents United States Biography.

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