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366 days in Abraham Lincoln's presidency : the private, political, and military decisions of America's greatest president / Stephen A. Wynalda.

By: Publication details: New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2010.Description: xxvii, 590 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781602399945
  • 1602399948
Other title:
  • Three hundred and sixty-six days in Abraham Lincoln's presidency
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E457.45 .W96 2010
Summary: Journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln's decisions in office--including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his eleven-year-old son, Willie, died. Revealed are Lincoln's private frustrations on September 28, 1862, as he wrote to vice president Hannibal Hamlin, "The North responds to the [Emancipation] proclamation sufficiently with breath; but breath alone kills no rebels." --from publisher description.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks E457.45 .W96 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001495539

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln's decisions in office--including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his eleven-year-old son, Willie, died. Revealed are Lincoln's private frustrations on September 28, 1862, as he wrote to vice president Hannibal Hamlin, "The North responds to the [Emancipation] proclamation sufficiently with breath; but breath alone kills no rebels." --from publisher description.

"A Herman Graf book."

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