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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... capital's “traditions” in some measure explain the Buchanans' outwardly ungracious behavior. In antebellum Washington, old hands rarely lent much useful knowledge to the new family in the Executive Mansion, particularly regarding how to ...
... CAPITAL Though Washington had been the nation's capital for six decades, the city was far from having yet taken its ... capital's inhabitants. The lowest parts of the city, which unfortunately included the White House and its precincts ...
... capital's Society with resolute will and iron fists. But even these plutocrats lived on streets still unpaved and ... capital of a new, Southern nation. But, formally at least, the Executive Mansion—as it was still officially called ...
... capital. Her core business was not the making of ordinary dresses, but rather of couturier clothes: She designed and ... capital's best-known women, including the strikingly handsome Varina Davis, wife of Alabama's Senator Jefferson ...
... capital's official social ranking. If such status was ignored or miscalculated, Seward knew that resulting injuries to pride could be deep and cause the administration long-lasting damage. Since neither the president nor his wife were ...
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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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