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, for the sake of security Scott had farsightedly ordered a detachment of soldiers to surround the Executive Mansion. Assorted sisters, cousins, and nieces of the new first lady, altogether fifteen privileged family members ...
... CAPITAL Though 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 ...
... capital itself was thoroughly steeped in slave culture, the owning of black Africans perfectly lawful and accepted without demur by the District's white inhabitants. The Washington the Lincolns would come to know most familiarly ran ...
... capital's Society with resolute will and iron fists. But even these plutocrats lived on streets still unpaved and thus perpetually filthy—Pennsylvania Avenue was the only paved street in the entire city—and they shared the same ...
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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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