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David, Alex Foner, Eric. Guelzo, Allen C. Holzer, Harold Leslie, Tonya. Lincoln, Abraham Meacham, JonLincoln, Abraham
Summary: "The first full-color facsimile edition of Lincoln's private notes, Abraham Lincoln's Diary is a deluxe collection of some of his most revelatory private writings. An essential archive, here presented exactly as Lincoln wrote them on scraps of paper, these "notes to self" appear alongside original, contextualizing essays by New York Times bestselling presidential biographer Ronald C. White. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 LINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7092 WHISummary: Celebrate the nation's sixteenth president. Presents a complex portrait of a man who many consider to be our greatest commander-in-chief, but who considered himself a lonely man. Brings to life the tumultuous time in which he led the country, some of his finest Civil War moments, and his final hours.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LINLeslie, Tonya.
Contents: Meet Abraham Lincoln -- Frontier life -- A country divided -- The Civil War -- An end to slavery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2008
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: JE 973.7092 LESMeacham, Jon
Summary: Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINMeacham, Jon
Summary: "A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM MEACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LINCOLN MEALincoln, Abraham
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1942
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.309 LINLincoln, Abraham
Summary: The President's writings trace his involvement in Illinois politics, his opposition to slavery, and his political debates with Stephen Douglas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 LINLincoln, Abraham
Summary: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents the full range of Lincoln's views, gathered from his private letters, speeches, official documents, and even race jokes, arranged chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1860s. --from publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 LINLincoln, Abraham
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 LINDavid, Alex
Contents: The question of slavery -- Stephen Douglas -- Abraham Lincoln -- After the Debates -- The Legacy of Lincoln -- Primary Source Transcriptions -- Chronology -- Glossary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Gov DavisHolzer, Harold
Summary: "From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln's grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation's demographics, culture, and--perhaps most significantly--voting patterns....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Professor Guelzo looks at Lincoln's life and legacy, from his youth and maturation into a successful lawyer through the evolution of his views on slavery to his presidency and triumphant management of emancipation and the restoration of the union.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINLincoln, Abraham
Summary: "A Cornelia & Michael Bessie book."
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 LINFoner, Eric.
Summary: In a landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Foner gives us a life of Lincoln as it intertwined with slavery, the defining issue of the time and the tragic hallmark of American history. The author demonstrates how Lincoln navigated a dynamic political landscape deftly, moving in measured steps, often on a path forged by abolitionists and radicals in his party, and that Lincoln's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2010