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Becoming Lincoln / William W. Freehling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freehling, William W., 1935- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Political career before 1861.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Political and social views.
- Political and social views.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- United States.
- Abraham Lincoln's political career before 1861.
- Local Subjects:
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Political career before 1861.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Political and social views.
- Abraham Lincoln's political career before 1861.
- Political and social views.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- x, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "A biographical account of Abraham Lincoln's rises and falls on his improbable path to becoming the president who ended slavery" -- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813941561
- 0813941563
- 9780813941578
- 0813941571
- OCLC:
- 1043051100
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