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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... lady as they entered, both nearly blue from the cold. 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 ...
... lady, altogether fifteen privileged family members, excitedly tagged along in the presidential party's wake, and all happily and gratefully sat down to Harriet Lane's ad hoc dinner. The meal ended just before the reception started, when ...
... 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 skirt draped with a French lace tunic. The new ...
... 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 presentable as her own natural assets and dressmaker's skills made possible ...
... LADY AND THE BLACK SEAMSTRESS From the first day of Lincoln's presidency, scores of people walked up the curved driveway to the north entrance of the White House every day, but only a few did so in response to the first lady's bidding ...
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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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