Becoming Lincoln
By: William W. Freehling
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780813941561
Subjects: Presidents; Political career before 1861; Biography; Political and social views
Description: "A biographical account of Abraham Lincoln's rises and falls on his improbable path to becoming the president who ended slavery" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rising Lincolns and the Kentucky plummet; title: The Indiana plunge; title: The Illinois crash; title: The New Salem recovery; title: The rise and fall of a state legislator; title: The rise and limits of a pre-1850s lawyer; title: The rise and turbulence of a marriage; title: A congressional aspirant's rise; title: The Congressional fall; title: The Union's economic rescue; title: Three climactic railroad cases; title: The Peoria address and the strategy of defense; title: The 1855 setback; title: The lost/found speech; title: The Dred Scott case and the Kansas finale; title: The great debates; title: The cunning revisions; title: The Cooper Union address; title: The Presidential election and the fruits of revision; title: The erratic interregnum; title: The troubled inaugural address; title: Forts Sumter and Pickens and the emergence of an impressive administrator.