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First among equals : Abraham Lincoln's reputation during his administration / Hans L. Trefousse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trefousse, Hans L. (Hans Louis), 1921-2010.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public opinion--United States--History--19th century.
- Public opinion.
- United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.
- United States.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Public opinion.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on a range of primary documents - speeches, newspaper accounts and editorials, private letters, and memoirs - Hans Trefousse gives the voices of Lincoln's own time. Politicians and ordinary people, soldiers and statesmen, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, give a chorus of American opinion.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Nomination and election, 1860-1861
- The first year
- The second year: sustaining popularity
- Defeat and victory
- Renomination and reelection
- Triumph and assassination.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-3493-2
- 0-8232-4785-6
- OCLC:
- 794702330
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