Abraham Lincoln deals with foreign affairs
Subtitle: a diplomat in carpet slippers
By: Jay Monaghan ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Howard James.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 505
ISBN-13: 9780803282315
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1861-1865
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-482) and index.
Originally published: Diplomat in carpet slippers. Bobbs-Merril, Co., 1945.
Table of contents: title: Questions that would unavoidably come in due time; title: Men bred in courts accustomed to the world; title: Whom could he trust, if not the Secretary of State?; title: No lawyer and no statesman; title: Noisy jackasses; title: They're having fits in the White House tonight; title: Dictators and soldiers of fortune; title: The capture of Mason and Slidell; title: Give up the men!; title: Stone fleets and wooden nutmegs : January 1862; title: Cold, fever, and then delirium; title: Antietam : Lincoln faces the crisis; title: I am a slow walker but I never walk back; title: Lincoln's propaganda; title: A man whose nights are sleepless; title: Gettysburg : end of British enmity; title: Lincoln tells Europe; title: It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river; title: A joke worthy of Abraham Lincoln himself; title: Every gambler in the blue grass will recognize you; title: A ship sailing to an unknown shore; title: Epilogue : Silver face in the night