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Lincoln president-elect : Abraham Lincoln and the great secession winter 1860-1861 Harold Holzer
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 457.4 .H65 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holzer, Harold.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Political career before 1861.
- United States--Politics and government--1857-1861.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
- Physical Description:
- x, 623 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.
- Contents:
- The government is about to fall into our hands
- My troubles have just commenced
- We won't jump that ditch
- A masterly inactivity
- The tug has to come
- Very much like the critter
- If we surrender it is the end of us
- Will you hazard so desperate a step?
- With a task before me
- No occasion for any excitement
- I would rather be assassinated
- Plain as a turnpike road
- The ultimate justice of the people
- Epilogue : mystic chords of memory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-595) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780743289474
- 0743289471
- 9780743289481
- 074328948X
- OCLC:
- 209693569
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