Overview

In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce current understanding of America's sixteenth president. In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's presidency and the trials of the Civil War. He supplies fascinating details on the crisis over Fort Sumter and the relentless office seekers who plagued Lincoln. He introduces readers to the president's battles with hostile newspaper editors and his quarrels with incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also interprets Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd, the untimely death of his son Willie to disease in 1862, and his recurrent anguish over the enormous human costs of the war.

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Author:   Michael Burlingame (Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, University of Illinois-Springfield)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.656kg
ISBN:  

9781421410586

ISBN 10:   1421410583
Pages:   1048
Publication Date:   27 May 2013
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"19. ""The Man Does Not Live Who Is More Devoted to Peace Than I Am, But It May Be Necessary to Put the Foot Down Firmly"": From Springfield to Washington (February 11–22, 1861) 20. ""I Am Now Going to Be Master"": Inauguration (February 23–March 4, 1861) 21. ""A Man So Busy Letting Rooms in One End of His House, That He Can't Stop to Put Out the Fire That Is Burning in the Other"": Distributing Patronage (March–April 1861) 22. ""You Can Have No Conf lict Without Being Yourselves the Aggressors"": The Fort Sumter Crisis (March–April 1861) 23. ""I Intend to Give Blows"": The Hundred Days (April–July 1861) 24. Sitzkrieg: The Phony War (August 1861–January 1862) 25 ""This Damned Old House"": The Lincoln Family in the Executive Mansion 26. ""I Expect to Maintain This Contest Until Successful, or Till I Die, or Am Conquered, or My Term Expires, or Congress or the Country Forsakes Me"": From the Slough of Despond to the Gates of Richmond (January–July 1862) 27. ""The Hour Comes for Dealing with Slavery"": Playing the Last Trump Card (January–July 1862) 28. ""Would You Prosecute the War with Elder- Stalk Squirts, Charged with Rose Water?"": The Soft War Turns Hard (July–September 1862) 29. ""I Am Not a Bold Man, But I Have the Knack of Sticking to My Promises!"": The Emancipation Proclamation (September– December 1862) 30. ""Go Forward, and Give Us Victories"": From the Mud March to Gettysburg (January–July 1863) 31. ""The Signs Look Better"": Victory at the Polls and in the Field (July–November 1863) 32. ""I Hope to Stand Firm Enough to Not Go Backward, and Yet Not Go Forward Fast Enough to Wreck the Country's Cause"": Reconstruction and Renomination (November 1863–June 1864) 33. ""Hold On with a Bulldog Grip and Chew and Choke as Much as Possible"": The Grand Offensive (May–August 1864) 34. ""The Wisest Radical of All"": Reelection (September–November 1864) 35. ""Let the Thing Be Pressed"": Victory at Last (November 1864– April 1865) 36. ""I Feel a Presentiment That I Shall Not Outlast the Rebellion. When It Is Over, My Work Will Be Done."": The Final Days (April 9–15, 1865) Acknowledgments Note on Sources Notes Index"

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Author Website:   http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/web_profiles/burlingame.html

Michael Burlingame is Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield. He is the author or editor of several books about Lincoln, including Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks, published by Johns Hopkins, and The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln.

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Author Website:   http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/web_profiles/burlingame.html

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