"First among Equals" : Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration / Hans L. Trefousse.
Trefousse, Hans L., author.
2022
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Title "First among Equals" : Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration / Hans L. Trefousse.
Author Trefousse, Hans L., author.
ISBN 9780823290697
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823290697
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2005
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (216 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823290697 doi
Summary One hundred and forty years after his assassination on April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln towers more than ever above the landscape of American politics. In myth and memory, he is always the Great Emancipator and savior of the Union, second in stature only to George Washington. But was Lincoln always so exalted? Was he, as some historians argue, a poor President, deeply disliked, whose legacy was ennobled only by John Wilkes Booth's bullet? In this fascinating book, a leading historian finally takes the full measure of Lincoln's reputation. Drawing on a remarkable range of primary documents, speeches, newspaper accounts and editorials, private letters, memoirs, and other sources-Hans L. Trefousse gives us the voices of Lincoln's own time. From North and South, at home and abroad, here are politicians and ordinary people, soldiers and statesmen, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, in a rich chorus of American opinion. The result is a masterly portrait of Lincoln the President in the eyes of his fellow Americans.
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Series The North's Civil War
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780823224692
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1 Nomination and Election: 1860-1861
2 The First Year
3 Second Year: Sustaining Popularity
4 Defeat and Victory
5 Renomination and Reelection
6 Triumph and Assassination
Notes
Other Works by Hans L. Trefousse
Index

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