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"First among Equals" - Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration (Paperback)
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"First among Equals" - Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration (Paperback)
Series: The North's Civil War
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One hundred and forty years after his assassination on April 14,
1865, Abraham Lincoln towers more than ever above the landscape of
American politics. In myth and memory, he is always the Great
Emancipator and savior of the Union, second in stature only to
George Washington. But was Lincoln always so exalted?Was he, as
some historians argue, a poor President, deeply disliked, whose
legacy was ennobled only by John Wilkes Booth's bullet? In this
fascinating book, a leading historian finally takes the full
measure of Lincoln's reputation. Drawing on a remarkable 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 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. The result is a masterly portrait of Lincoln
the President in the eyes of his fellow Americans.
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