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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... meant something considerably different from how the couple would have defined it back in Springfield. The eastern end of the floor—the part directly above the great East Room one floor down —had long been given over to the offices of ...
... meant the storm about to break in Charleston harbor. MARY While her 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 ...
... 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. She should ...
... meant that black newborns 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 ...
... meant that her animosity to the elder of the pair eventually spilled over to the younger. Soon the two men developed disrespectful nicknames for the first lady, “hellcat” and “La Reine” being two of the milder ones.23 Mary thus wielded ...
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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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