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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... John Nicolay, the senior of the two private secretaries Lincoln had brought with him from Illinois, would act as something like a chief of staff in modern terms. Only a few days before the inauguration Nicolay had visited the White ...
... John Nicolay and John Hay meshed perfectly where Abraham Lincoln's needs were concerned, even though the pair's styles and strengths remained distinctly different. The men formed a combination that would, in political terms ...
... Nicolay to accompany him to Washington and serve as his private secretary. The tall and thin Nicolay, who revealed ... John Hay represented the younger half of Lincoln's office staff. Though Hay was always the junior in official rank as well ...
... John, making him one of the few people Lincoln addressed by first name; even Nicolay was addressed by his last name by the president. Noah Brooks, a journalist and Lincoln family friend, described the relationship between the president ...
... Nicolay wrote to his fiancee, Therena, loyally waiting for him back in Illinois: “John and I are moping our day away here in our offices like a couple of great owls, and expect in an hour or two to go down to Willards and get our 'daily ...
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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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