000340066 000__ 04152cam\a2200433\a\4500 000340066 001__ 340066 000340066 005__ 20210513123517.0 000340066 008__ 080509s2008\\\\nyuac\\\\b\\\\001\0deng\\ 000340066 010__ $$a 2008021520 000340066 019__ $$a264040141 000340066 020__ $$a9780743289474 000340066 020__ $$a0743289471 000340066 020__ $$a9780743289481 000340066 020__ $$a074328948X 000340066 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn209693569 000340066 035__ $$a340066 000340066 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dIG#$$dBTCTA$$dBAKER$$dYDXCP$$dZS3$$dIK2$$dBWX$$dLF8$$dJRS$$dAFQ$$dCQU$$dKEC$$dTJX$$dCHVBK$$dIOE$$dHEBIS 000340066 043__ $$an-us--- 000340066 049__ $$aISEA 000340066 05000 $$aE457.4$$b.H69 2008 000340066 08200 $$a973.7092$$222 000340066 1001_ $$aHolzer, Harold. 000340066 24510 $$aLincoln president-elect :$$bAbraham Lincoln and the great secession winter 1860-1861 /$$cHarold Holzer. 000340066 250__ $$a1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. 000340066 260__ $$aNew York :$$bSimon & Schuster,$$c2008. 000340066 300__ $$ax, 623, [16] p of plates :$$bill., ports. ;$$c25 cm. 000340066 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 493-595) and index. 000340066 5050_ $$aThe government is about to fall into our hands -- My troubles have just commenced -- We won't jump that ditch -- A masterly inactivity -- The tug has to come -- Very much like the critter -- If we surrender, it is the end of us -- Will you hazard so desperate a step? -- With a task before me -- No occasion for any excitement -- I would rather be assassinated -- Plain as a turnpike road -- The ultimate justice of the people -- Epilogue : Mystic chords of memory -- What became of ...? 000340066 5200_ $$aAbraham Lincoln first demonstrated his determination and leadership in the Great Secession Winter -- the four months between his election in November 1860 and his inauguration in March 1861 -- when he rejected compromises urged on him by Republicans and Democrats, Northerners and Southerners, that might have preserved the Union a little longer but would have enshrined slavery for generations. Though Lincoln has been criticized by many historians for failing to appreciate the severity of the secession crisis that greeted his victory, Harold Holzer shows that the president-elect waged a shrewd and complex campaign to prevent the expansion of slavery while vainly trying to limit secession to a few Deep South states. During this most dangerous White House transition in American history, the country had two presidents: one powerless (the president-elect, possessing no constitutional authority), the other paralyzed (the incumbent who refused to act). Through limited, brilliantly timed and crafted public statements, determined private letters, tough political pressure, and personal persuasion, Lincoln guaranteed the integrity of the American political process of majority rule, sounded the death knell of slavery, and transformed not only his own image but that of the presidency, even while making inevitable the war that would be necessary to make these achievements permanent. Lincoln President-Elect is the first book to concentrate on Lincoln's public stance and private agony during these months and on the momentous consequences when he first demonstrated his determination and leadership. Holzer recasts Lincoln from an isolated prairie politician yet to establish his greatness, to a skillful shaper of men and opinion and an immovable friend of freedom at a decisive moment when allegiance to the founding credo "all men are created equal" might well have been sacrificed. 000340066 60010 $$aLincoln, Abraham,$$d1809-1865. 000340066 60010 $$aLincoln, Abraham,$$d1809-1865$$xPolitical career before 1861. 000340066 650_0 $$aPresidents$$xElection. 000340066 650_0 $$aPresidents$$xTransition periods. 000340066 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xPolitics and government$$y1857-1861. 000340066 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xHistory$$yCivil War, 1861-1865$$xCauses. 000340066 85200 $$bgen$$hE457.4$$i.H69$$i2008 000340066 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2008021520-d.html 000340066 85641 $$3Sample text$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2008021520-s.html 000340066 85641 $$3Table of contents only$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2008021520-t.html 000340066 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0901/2008021520-b.html 000340066 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:340066$$pGLOBAL_SET 000340066 980__ $$aBIB 000340066 980__ $$aBOOK