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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Becoming Lincoln
  name:
    name part: Freehling, William W.
    name part: 1935-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: vau
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: A biographical account of Abraham Lincoln's rises and falls on his improbable path to becoming the president who ended slavery.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Prologue: A puzzling inauguration -- The rising Lincolns and the Kentucky plummet -- The Indiana plunge -- The Illinois crash -- The New Salem recovery -- The rise and fall of a state legislator -- The rise and limits of a pre-1850s lawyer -- The rise and turbulence of a marriage -- A congressional aspirant's rise -- The Congressional fall -- The Union's economic rescue -- Three climactic railroad cases -- The Peoria address and the strategy of defense -- The 1855 setback -- The lost/found speech -- The Dred Scott case and the Kansas finale -- The great debates -- The cunning revisions -- The Cooper Union address -- The Presidential election and the fruits of revision -- The erratic interregnum -- The troubled inaugural address -- Forts Sumter and Pickens and the emergence of an impressive administrator -- Epilogue: (Slowly) Becoming a coercive emancipator.
  note: William W. Freehling.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lincoln, Abraham
      name part: 1809-1865
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lincoln, Abraham
      name part: 1809-1865
    topic: Political career before 1861
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lincoln, Abraham
      name part: 1809-1865
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    topic: Presidents
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  classification: E457.35 .F74 2018
  classification: 973.7092 B
  identifier: 9780813941561
  identifier: 0813941563
  identifier: 9780813941578 (ebook)
  identifier: 2017061669
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180520
    record change date: 20190122120018.0
    record identifier: in00004015189