Lincoln the President: Springfield to GettysburgFirst published in four volumes in 1945, 1952, and 1955, J. G. Randall's Lincoln the President is here reprinted in two. The first covers Lincoln's life as far as Gettysburg, focusing mainly on his presidential administration. The second concentrates on Lincoln the person -- his conversation, his personality, his daily tasks, his marriage, his sense of humor -- and covers his life from the period of the Emancipation Proclamation up to the final triumph of Appomattox and his untimely death. |
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Contents
cunn rxci I A Mans Outlook | 1 |
Earliest Known Portrait | 10 |
Thus Stood Lincoln | 26 |
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| Title | Lincoln the President: Springfield to Gettysburg Volume 1 of Lincoln the President, Lincoln the President |
| Author | James Garfield Randall |
| Contributor | Richard Nelson Current |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Da Capo Press, Incorporated, 1946 |
| ISBN | 0306807548, 9780306807541 |
| Length | 439 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
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