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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... Husband and wife felt markedly different about the dwelling that confronted them. What was to be the couple's home for the next four years looked more like a run-down plantation house than the head office of the American presidency. But ...
... husband's hatjust as many years before in her native Lexington he had held her hand as a suitor for her affections. To the sprightly and patriotic notes of “Hail Columbia,” the company marched smartly from one end of the flame-lit ...
... husband grappled with the issues of war and peace, Mary Lincoln's hardworking mind was filled with entirely different concerns on her first morning as mistress of the mansion. With her customary high energy and despite her late night ...
... husband while the White House's social functions were carried out. The first lady was meant to greet visitors, chat politely with guests, sen/e tea to the wives of the men who ran the government, and all the while look as fashionably ...
... husband seven more children, which meant an astonishing twenty-eight years separated Robert's first child by his first wife from his last child by his second wife. Lost in a crowded field of a dozen siblings and half siblings, by the ...
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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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