Becoming Lincoln / William W. Freehling.
"A biographical account of Abraham Lincoln's rises and falls on his improbable path to becoming the president who ended slavery" -- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780813941561
- ISBN: 0813941563
- ISBN: 9780813941578
- ISBN: 0813941571
- Physical Description: x, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2018]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Prologue: A puzzling inauguration -- The rising Lincolns and the Kentucky plummet -- The Indiana plunge -- The Illinois crash -- The New Salem recovery -- The rise and fall of a state legislator -- The rise and limits of a pre-1850s lawyer -- The rise and turbulence of a marriage -- A congressional aspirant's rise -- The Congressional fall -- The Union's economic rescue -- Three climactic railroad cases -- The Peoria address and the strategy of defense -- The 1855 setback -- The lost/found speech -- The Dred Scott case and the Kansas finale -- The great debates -- The cunning revisions -- The Cooper Union address -- The Presidential election and the fruits of revision -- The erratic interregnum -- The troubled inaugural address -- Forts Sumter and Pickens and the emergence of an impressive administrator -- Epilogue: (Slowly) Becoming a coercive emancipator. |
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Subject: | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Political career before 1861. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Political and social views. Presidents > United States > Biography. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | K B L736fre 2018 (Text) | 33126023047495 | KY Biography | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | K B L736fre 2018 (Text) | 33126023047487 | KY Biography | Available | - |