1. Creator/Author:
  2. DeRose, Chris (2)

Congressman Lincoln : the making of America's greatest president /

Authors:
DeRose, Chris
Item ID:
71201200800053
Publisher:
New York : Threshold Editions, 2013.
Edition:
1st Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
ISBN:
9781451695144 (hbk.); 1451695144 (hbk.); 9781451697285 (pbk.); 1451697287 (pbk.)
Call Number:
E457.4 .D46 2013
Physical Description:
xi, 335 pages ; 24 cm.
Topic:
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political career before 1861.
United States. Congress. House -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1845-1861.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-313) and index.; Prologue. An epistle to the muse of history -- The most ambitious man in the world -- The right to rise -- Turnabout is fair play -- Lincoln for Congress -- A house divided -- Lincoln's Washington -- The secret question -- A great president-making machine -- The questions of war -- War and peace -- Not a sinecure -- The gallows of Haman -- Internal improvements -- The trouble with Oregon -- Lincoln the young Indian -- Miles gone by -- The valiant demolisher of windmills -- With malice toward some -- The last full measure -- General Taylor's grand triumphal march -- The comet at the end of the world -- Epilogue. The emancipation of Abraham Lincoln.
OCLC Number:
ocn793221077
Holding Institution:
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Available for Viewing:
By appointment only
Category:
Books & Pamphlets