"First Among Equals": Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration

"First Among Equals": Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration
ISBN-10
0823224686
ISBN-13
9780823224685
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
199
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Fordham Univ Press
Author
Hans Louis Trefousse

Description

"In this book, a leading historian finally takes the full measure of Lincoln's reputation. Drawing on a range of primary documents - speeches, newspaper accounts and editorials, private letters, memoirs, and other sources - Hans L. Trefousse gives us the voices of Lincoln's own time. From citizens North and South, at home and abroad, here are politicians and ordinary people, soldiers and statesmen, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, in a rich chorus of American opinion. Trefousse carefully crafts a clear picture of how his contemporaries measured Lincoln's great strengths - and shortcomings."--BOOK JACKET.

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