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Author
Series
Action presidents volume 2
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"We all know that Abraham Lincoln gave the historic Gettysburg Address and ended the Civil War. But did you also know that he pardoned the first White House turkey, once snuck into Washington in disguise, and grew his famous beard because an eleven-year-old girl said it made him look less ugly?! Read all about the radical rail-splitter, supreme speaker, and paramount president Abraham Lincoln in the second Action Presidents book, where the history...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today-by best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. While many books have been written about his temperament, judgment, and steady hand in guiding the country through the Civil War, we know...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A Smithsonian historian documents the rise of the most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that march America from the 1860 election to the civil war, bearing witness to the power of protest, the fight for majority rule and the defense of free speech.
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