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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... president took hardly any notice of the mansion's sad condition. His wife, Mary, on the other hand, triumphant in her new self-styled status as “Madam President,” decided on the spot she was going to make this dismal place fit for its ...
... president, James Buchanan, deep banks of onlookers lining the rough roadway nearly blocked their carriage. Lincoln was painfully aware that for the first time a heavy military presence had been mustered to keep an incoming president ...
... president's well-being, “Thank God, we now have a government.”4 Given the dangerous atmosphere in the capital, for ... President Lincoln's hand. For several hours extending into the early evening, the president and his first lady greeted ...
... president would have to follow to ensure that the fledgling administration got off the ground. In 1861 there were no press staff, no speechwriters, and certainly no “councilors to the president.” Civil servants ready to translate the ...
... president for the next four years. It would also equally agreeably serve the pair's long lifetime of friendship, culminating in a jointly written encyclopedic memoir of the Lincoln administration that would be published twenty years ...
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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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