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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... became their white owner's property. It meant that the black family could be destroyed when the owner sold its members separately, and it meant that slaves could be and often were flogged for whatever actions their owners found ...
... became skilled at French, thanks to the efforts of Madame Charlotte Mentelle, the headmistress at the boarding academy on the outskirts of Lexington to which Robert Todd sent her. Her ultimate rescuer from Lexington was one of her elder ...
... became far less benign traits in the mature woman. History entered the picture when this quicksilver young woman fascinated and captured Abraham Lincoln's attention as a possible wife. But Lincoln eventually came to perceive her as ...
... a sphere dramatically separate from that of men. She became pregnant only one more time. On April 4, 1853, her fourth son was born (the delivery was medically difficult, likely the main reason the Lincolns didn't attempt to try again with ...
... became an agent that greatly raised Lincoln's presidential prospects. Lincoln must have borne the requisite intellect in the inner workings of his mind to eventually become the greatest president in American history. But to achieve that ...
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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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