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The Last Weeks of Abraham Lincoln - A Day-by-Day Account of His Personal, Political, and Military Challenges (Paperback)
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The Last Weeks of Abraham Lincoln - A Day-by-Day Account of His Personal, Political, and Military Challenges (Paperback)
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Loot Price R488
Discovery Miles 4 880
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This day-by-day account of Abraham Lincoln's last six weeks of life
covers a period of extraordinary events, not only for the president
himself but for the fate of the nation.From March 4 to April 15,
1865--a momentous time for the nation--Abraham Lincoln delivered
his second inaugural address, supervised climatic battles leading
up to the end of the Civil War, learned that Robert E. Lee had
surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, and finally was
killed by assassin John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre. Weaving an
arresting narrative around the historical facts, historian David
Alan Johnson brings to life the president's daily routine, as he
guided the country through one of the most tumultuous periods of
American history.The reader follows the president as he greets
visitors at the inaugural ball, asks abolitionist Frederick
Douglass's opinion of the inaugural address, confers with Generals
Grant and Sherman on the final stages of the war, visits a field
hospital for wounded outside City Point, Virginia, and attempts to
calm his high-strung wife Mary, who appears on the verge of nervous
collapse. We read excerpts from press reviews of Lincoln's second
inaugural address, learn that Mrs. Lincoln's ball gown created a
sensation, and are given eye-witness accounts of the celebrations
and drunken revelry that broke out in Washington when the end of
the war was announced.This engagingly written narrative history of
a short but extremely important span of days vividly depicts the
actions and thoughts of one of our greatest presidents during a
time of national emergency.
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