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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... WASHINGTON. CITY. Grateful to be finished with the day's long and tiring ceremony, Abraham and Mary Lincoln cheerfully crossed the threshold into the White House, escaping bleak skies and a cutting northwest wind that mirrored Washington's ...
... Washington, old hands rarely lent much useful knowledge to the new family in the Executive Mansion, particularly regarding how to make the house function as a home. The departing occupants were never even expected to brief their ...
... Washington society disappointed the new first lady, she nonetheless was intent on looking and acting every bit the evening's sophisticated star. For the occasion, Mary chose an immense blue silk crinoline, the great half-globe of her ...
... Washington had been the nation's capital for six decades, the city was far from having yet taken its modern shape by the time of Lincoln's inauguration, with Pierre-Charles L'Enfant's majestic plan still only a small fraction completed ...
... Washington the Lincolns would come to know most familiarly ran along the axis from their own residence to the Capitol, with Pennsylvania Avenue the filament tying the two together. From the top of eighty-foot-high Jenkins Hill, on which ...
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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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