Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times /
Abe is a cultural biography of Abraham Lincoln, following Lincoln's monumental life from cradle to grave while weaving a narrative that includes Lincoln's cultural influences and the nationwide and regional cultural trends and moods and happenings of his day, and how Lincoln both shaped an...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- The Lincoln tree
- Child of the frontier
- Foundations of presidential character
- The powers of nature
- The school of events
- Turmoil and sensations
- Law and culture
- Economy and politics
- Antislavery emergence
- The isms and the woolly horse
- The Springfield family
- The house divided and the Lincoln-Douglas debates
- Blondin, Barnum, and B'hoys
- Challenging session
- The higher laws of war
- The Lincoln White House
- "O Captain!"
- Commander in chief
- Forging cultural unity
- Politics, race, and the culture wars
- Democratic eloquence
- Union, tragedy, and legacy.