Giant in the shadows
Subtitle: the life of Robert T. Lincoln
By: Jason Emerson
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9780809330553; 9780809390717
Subjects: Politics and government; Ambassadors; Lawyers; Children of presidents; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "I was born in the Globe Tavern"; title: "Is bicarb a swear word"; title: "The most profitable [year] of my life"; title: "Robert Lincoln has been dubbed the prince of rails!"; title: "He is only Mr. Robert Lincoln, of Cambridge"; title: "A very dreadful night"; title: "I feel utterly withour spirit or courage"; title: "One of the most promising young men of the West"; title: "I am likely to have a great deal of trouble"; title: "I am in better shape than most"; title: "I have done my duty as I best know"; title: "I could have stopped this scheme with little trouble"; title: "I don't want to be Minister to England or anywhere else"; title: "How many hours of sorrow have I passed in this town"; title: "The best Secretary of War since Jefferson Davis"; title: "I am not a candidate"; title: "I expect only the greatest satisfaction"; title: "I don't want to be nobody nor nothink except a Chicago shyster"; title: "As much a man of destiny as his lamented father"; title: "Minister Lincoln was quietness personified"; title: "What would his father say?"; title: "I am now a Vermont farmer!"; title: "My filial gratitude cannot find adequate expression"; title: "I am now enjoying life"; title: "He simply went to sleep"; title: Epilogue: "His own place in the sun"