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Autore |
Thomas Benjamin Platt <1902-1956.> |
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Titolo |
Abraham Lincoln [[electronic resource] ] : a biography / / Benjamin P. Thomas ; with a new foreword by Michael Burlingame |
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Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-69848-9 |
9786613675446 |
0-8093-8692-5 |
1-4416-1959-3 |
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Edizione |
[Southern Illinois University Press pbk. ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (581 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Presidents - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1952. |
Includes index. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Bibliography: p. [523]-548. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Book Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Maps""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. ""The Short and Simple Annals of the Poor""""; ""2. Young Man on His Own""; ""3. Frontier Legislator""; ""4. Courtship and Marriage""; ""5. Lawyer-Politician""; ""6. The Gentleman from Illinois""; ""7. Echoes of National Conflict""; ""8. Lincoln Re-enters Politics""; ""9. A Political Plunge""; ""10. Defeated for the Senate""; ""11. The Making of a President""; ""12. Peace or a Sword""; ""13. A War for Democracy""; ""14. Shadows on the White House"" |
""15. McClellan in Command""""16. ""The Occasion is Piled High with Difficulty""""; ""17. The Signs Look Better""; ""18. ""There Are No Lincoln Men""""; ""19. Profile of a President""; ""20. To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds""; ""Index""; ""Author Bio""; ""Back Cover"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Long considered a classic, Benjamin P. Thomas's Abraham Lincoln: A Biography takes an incisive look at one of American history's greatest figures. Originally published in 1952 to wide acclaim, this eloquent account rises above previously romanticized depictions of the sixteenth |
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