The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a FamilySt. Martin's Publishing Group, 17 сент. 2013 г. - Всего страниц: 304 From the day of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, a nation divided by savage conflict confronted the new president. But what many don't know was that within the White House's walls, the Lincoln's family would soon find itself suffering turmoil mirroring that of the nation he led. |
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... American presidency. But the just inaugurated president took hardly any notice of the mansion's sad condition. His ... America's eighty-five years of independence, the nation had never before found itself in a situation as dangerous as ...
... America, nearly so much that other quarrels about politics and social differences mattered relatively little. A single unavoidable reality stood above this day's events: Abraham Lincoln would not now be stepping across the White House ...
... America, Mary Lincoln knew next to nothing about the home she was entering. For the past four years the Executive Mansion's hostess had been Harriet Lane, the bachelor President Buchanan's high-spirited niece. Since the previous fall's ...
... Americans who the prior November had voted the Lincolns into their new prominence. When ushers finally shut the doors on the good-natured and curious crowd, most of whom had been well-wishers rather than the office seekers who would ...
... Americans concurred in his assessment. An almost endless list of factors made Washington the usually disagreeable ... American capital as an official hardship posting for Her Majesty's diplomatic representatives unfortunate enough to ...
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THREE Calamity in War Calamity at Home | |
FOUR Death in the White House | |
SEVEN An Unfinished Work | |
EPILOGUE The Flying Dutchman | |
NOTES | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
INDEX | |
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