Abraham Lincoln
By: by Adam I.P. Smith
Series: Pocket GIANTS; Pocket giants (Stroud (England))
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Stroud
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780750957533; 9780752497754
Subjects: Presidents; Biography; Politics and government; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Historical; HISTORY; State & Local; General
Description: Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin on the frontier, rose from labourer to lawyer, and finally to President of the United States. In doing so, he confronted the great questions of his age: slavery, democracy and nationalism and wrote speeches that echo through the ages. This biography explains how Lincoln's life and career were shaped by rapid economic transformation in North America, and by the international antislavery movement and the wave of democratic nationalism that swept through the mid-19th century world. It is the story of an ambitious, in some ways brilliant and rather stra.
Table of contents: title: 1. 'Who was Abraham Lincoln?'; title: 2. Pioneer; title: 3. Self-made man; title: 4. Harbinger of war; title: 5. Nationalist; title: 6. War leader; title: 7. Emancipator; title: 8. Poet; title: 9. Politician; title: 10. Martyr; title: Postscript: a note on the Lincoln literature; title: Notes; title: Timeline; title: Further reading.