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UNINA9910778131603321 |
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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 |
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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 president to reveal the real Lincoln: a complex, shrewd, and dynamic |
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