Abraham Lincoln is revered in the USA and throughout the world as a political hero and virtual martyr. He is known as the saviour of the Union, victor in the American Civil War and the Great Emancipator of slaves. But is this reputation deserved? In this engaging and sometimes provocative new book, Alan Sked overturns the consensus on an American hero, and provides an original angle on the political career of an otherwise impenetrable figure. Did Lincoln receive a democratic mandate in 1860 with only 39% of the overall vote? What was his attitude toward Native Americans? Was the Civil War inevitable? Did Lincoln’s insistence on the illegality of secession needlessly cost 650,000 lives that could have been spared? Sked scrutinises the legitimacy of Lincoln’s eminent status, and offers a rare glimpse into the life and politics of a flawed hero. An informed and unique view, this engagingly written book will fascinate general readers and prove essential for students and specialists.
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Abraham Lincoln is revered in the USA and throughout the world as a political hero and virtual martyr.
Volume 1 1.Lineage 2.Indiana 3.Illinois in 1830 4.New Salem 5.Lincoln in the Black Hawk War 6.Surveyor and representative 7.Legislative experience 8.The Lincoln-Stone experience 9.Collapse of "The system" 10.Early law practice 11.Marriage 12.The Shields duel 13.The campaign of 1844 14.Lincoln's campaign for Congress 15.The Thirtieth Congress 16.A fortunate escape 17.The Circuit lawyer 18.The balance of power 19.Repeal of the Missouri Compromise 20.The drift of politics 21.Lincoln and Trumbull 22.The Border Ruffians 23.The bogus laws 24.The Topeka Constitution 25.Civil War in Kansas Volume 2 1.Jefferson Davis on rebellion 2.The Conventions of 1856 3.Congressional Ruffianism 4.The Dred Scott decision 5.Douglas and Lincoln on Dred Scott 6.The Lecompton Constitution 7.The revolt of Douglas 8.The Lincoln-Douglas debates 9.The Freeport Doctrine 10.Lincoln's Ohio speeches 11.Harper's Ferry 12.Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech 13.The Charleston Convention 14.The Baltimore nominations 15.The Chicago Convention 16.Lincoln elected 17.Beginnings of rebellion 18.The Cabinet cabal 19.From the ballot to the bullet 20.Major Anderson 21.The Charleston Forts 22.The President's message 23.The Charleston conspirators 24.Mr. Buchanan's truce 25.The retirement of Cass 26.The Senate committee of thirteen 27.The House committee of thirty-three 28.The conspiracy proclaimed 29.The forty muskets Volume 3 1.South Carolina secession 2.Personal liberty bills 3.The surrender programme 4.Fort Sumter 5.A blundering commission 6.The Cabinet régime 7.The "Star of the West" 8.Anderson's truce 9.The military situation at Charleston 10.The national defense 11.The Sumter and Pickens truce 12.The cotton "republics" 13.The Montgomery Confederacy 14.Failure of compromise 15.The constitutional amendment 16.The president-elect 17.Stephens's speech 18.Questions and answers 19.Springfield to Washington 20.Lincoln's secret night journey 21.Lincoln's inauguration 22.Lincoln's Cabinet 23. The question of Sumter 24.The rebel game 25. Virginia 26.Premier or president Volume 4 1.Fort Pickens reinforced 2. The Sumter expedition 3. The fall of Sumter 4.The call to arms 5.The national uprising 6.Baltimore 7.Washington in danger 8.Rebellious Maryland 9.Texas 10.The Ohio Line 11.Missouri 12.Kentucky 13.The Confederate Military League 14.Civil War 15.European neutrality 16.McClellan and Grant 17.Scott's Anaconda 18.The advance 19.West Virginia 20.Bull Run 21.Congress 22.The contraband 23.Frémont 24.Military emancipation 25.The Army of the Potomac Volume 5 1.Hatters and Port Royal 2.The "Trent" affair 3.The Tennessee Line 4.East Tennessee 5.Halleck 6.Lincoln directs Cooperation 7.Grant and Thomas in Kentucky 8.Cameron and Stanton 9.Plans of campaign 10.Manassas evacuated 11.Fort Donelson 12.Compensated abolishment 13."Monitor" and "Merrimac" 14.Roanoke Island 15.Farragut's victory 16.New Orleans 17.Pea Ridge and Island No. 10 18.The Shiloh Campaign 19.Halleck's Corinth Campaign 20.Yorktown 21.From Williamsburg to Fair Oaks 22.Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign 23.The Seven Days' Battles 24.Harrison's landing Volume 6 1.Pope's Virginia Campaign 2.Mexico 3.Diplomacy of 1862 4.Meditation declined 5.Signs of the times 6.Emancipation proposed and postponed 7.Antietam 8.Emancipation announced 9.The removal of McClellan 10.Fredericksburg 11.Financial measures 12.Seward and Chase 13.Perryville and Murfreesboro 14.West Virginia admitted 15.Lincoln and the churches 16.Military governors 17.Colonization 18.Missouri guerrillas and politics 19.The Edict of freedom 20.Negro soldiers 21.Retaliation Volume 7 1.The enrollment and the draft 2.The Lincoln-Seymour correspondence 3.Du Pont before Charleston 4.Chancellorsville 5.Preludes to the Vicksburg Campaigns 6.The Campaign of the Bayous 7.Grant's May battles in Mississippi 8.The invasion of Pennsylvania 9.Gettysburg 10.Vicksburg 11.Port Hudson 12.Vallandigham 13.The defeat of the Peace Party at the polls 14.Maximillian 15.Fort Wagner 16.Prisoners of war Volume 8 1.Conspiracies in the North 2.Habeas Corpus 3.The march to Chattanooga 4.Chickamauga 5.Chattanooga 6.Burnside in Tennessee 7.Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 8.Missouri radicals and conservatives 9.The line of the Rapidan 10.Foreign relations in 1863 11.Olustee and the Red River 12. The Pomeroy Circular 13.Grant General-in-Chief 14.The wilderness 15.Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor 16.Arkansas free 17.Louisiana free 18.Tennessee free 19.Maryland free 20.Missouri free Volume 9 1.Sherman's Campaign to the Chattahoochee 2.The Cleveland Convention 3.Lincoln renominated 4.The resignation of Mr. Chase 5.The Wade-Davis Manifesto 6.The last days of the rebel navy 7.Early's Campaign against Washington 8.Horace Greeley's peace mission 9.The Jaquess-Gilmore Mission 10.Mobile Bay 11.The Chicago surrender 12.Atlanta 13.Sheridan in the Shenandoah 14.Cedar Creek 15.Cabinet changes 16.Lincoln reelected 17.Chase as Chief-Justice 18.Petersburg 19.Reconstruction 20.The March to the Sea Volume 10 1.Franklin and Nashville 2.The Albemarle 3.Fort Fisher and Wilmington 4.The Thirteenth Amendment 5.Blair's Mexican project 6.The Hampton Roads Conference 7.The Second Inaugural 8.Five Forks 9.Appomattox 10.The fall of the rebel capital 11.Lincoln in Richmond 12.Johnston's surrender 13.The capture of Jefferson Davis 14.The fourteenth of April 15.The fate of the assassins 16.The mourning pageant 17.The end of rebellion 18.Lincoln's fame. Index to the Volumes
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First published in 1890, this 10-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln has had a lasting influence on assessments of the 16th president of the United States.
Offers in 225 chapters and approximately 5,000 pages a comprehensive survey of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln

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9781784534943
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Bloomsbury Academic
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234 mm
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156 mm
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G, 01
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Engelsk
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Biographical note

J. Nicolay was a German-born American biographer, secretary of US President Abraham Lincoln. J. Hay was an American statesman and official, private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln. Hay's highest office was United States Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Hay was also an author and biographer.