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This fiery trial : the speeches and writings of Abraham Lincoln
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Presents more than one hundred writings by Abraham Lincoln spanning his political career, from 1832 to 1865, each with brief introductions providing context and showing how the statesman's views on...
Presents more than one hundred writings by Abraham Lincoln spanning his political career, from 1832 to 1865, each with brief introductions providing context and showing how the statesman's views on pertinent issues changed over the years.
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- Creator
- edited by William E. Gienapp
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- English
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 2002
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- xvii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 0195151062, 9780195151060, 0195151011, 9780195151015
- OCLC
- ocm47930786
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-236).
- Prologue -- "Peculiar ambition" 1831-1853 -- "Half slave and half free" 1854-1860 -- "The perpetuity of popular government" 1860-1861 -- "We cannot escape history" 1862 -- "A new birth of freedom" 1863 -- "Events have controlled me" 1863-1864 -- "To bind up the nation's wounds" 1864-1865 -- Chronology of Abraham Lincoln