Congressman Lincoln
Subtitle: the making of America's greatest president
By: Christopher Derose
Edition: 1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781451695144
Subjects: Politics and government; Legislators; Presidents; United States; Biography; United States. Congress. House; Political career before 1861
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  307-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: The most ambitious man in the world; title: The right to rise; title: Turnabout is fair play; title: A house divided; title: Lincoln's Washington; title: The secret question; title: The questions of war; title: War and peace; title: Not a sinecure; title: Three conventions; title: Internal improvements; title: The trouble with Oregon; title: Lincoln the young Indian; title: The valiant destroyer of windmills; title: Uncivil and undiplomatic; title: The last full measure; title: A rope of sand or a band of steel?; title: The comet at the end of the world.