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Author |
: Elizabeth Smith Brownstein |
Publisher |
: Wiley |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2005-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1681620006 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781681620008 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lincoln's Other White House by : Elizabeth Smith Brownstein
The Lincolns spent the summer of 1862 north of the White House at the Soldiers' Home. The lush, cool hill overlooking the squalid capital promised the Lincolns an escape from the ""city of stink."" Despite fears about Lincoln's vulnerability in the secluded place, Lincoln spent a quarter of his presidency at the Soldiers' Home. But until the National Trust for Historic Preservation began restoring the cottage, little had been done to explore this missing link in Lincoln's life. Elizabeth Smith Brownstein fills in a critical gap. Using diaries, letters, and eyewitness accounts, she provides unusual perspectives on Lincoln's relationships, traces the evolution of Lincoln's image, examines the Lincoln marriage, and more. Lincoln's Other White House is a vivid evocation of a turbulent era, and an intimate portrait of the still elusive president.
Author |
: Elizabeth Smith Brownstein |
Publisher |
: Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2005-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781620459478 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1620459477 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lincoln's Other White House by : Elizabeth Smith Brownstein
The Lincolns spent the summer of 1862 north of the White House at the Soldiers’ Home. The lush, cool hill overlooking the squalid capital promised the Lincolns an escape from the "city of stink." Despite fears about Lincoln’s vulnerability in the secluded place, Lincoln spent a quarter of his presidency at the Soldiers’ Home. But until the National Trust for Historic Preservation began restoring the cottage, little had been done to explore this missing link in Lincoln’s life. Elizabeth Smith Brownstein fills in a critical gap. Using diaries, letters, and eyewitness accounts, she provides unusual perspectives on Lincoln’s relationships, traces the evolution of Lincoln’s image, examines the Lincoln marriage, and more. Lincoln’s Other White House is a vivid evocation of a turbulent era, and an intimate portrait of the still elusive president.
Author |
: James B. Conroy |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1538113910 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781538113912 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lincoln's White House by : James B. Conroy
Lincoln's White House is the first book devoted to capturing the look, feel, and smell of the executive mansion from Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 to his assassination in 1865.
Author |
: Michael Burlingame |
Publisher |
: SIU Press |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 1999-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780809322626 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0809322625 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inside Lincoln's White House by : Michael Burlingame
On 18 April 1861, assistant presidential secretary John Hay recorded in his diary the report of several women that "some young Virginian long haired swaggering chivalrous of course. . . and half a dozen others including a daredevil guerrilla from Richmond named Ficklin would do a thing within forty eight hours that would ring through the world." The women feared that the Virginian planned either to assassinate or to capture the president. Calling this a "harrowing communication," Hay continued his entry: "They went away and I went to the bedside of the Chief couché. I told him the yarn; he quietly grinned." This is but one of the dramatic entries in Hay’s Civil War diary, presented here in a definitive edition by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger. Justly deemed the most intimate record we will ever have of Abraham Lincoln in the White House, the Hay diary is, according to Burlingame and Ettlinger, "one of the richest deposits of high-grade ore for the smelters of Lincoln biographers and Civil War historians." While the Cabinet diaries of Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Gideon Welles also shed much light on Lincoln’s presidency, as does the diary of Senator Orville Hickman Browning, none of these diaries has the literary flair of Hay’s, which is, as Lincoln’s friend Horace White noted, as "breezy and sparkling as champagne." An aspiring poet, Hay recorded events in a scintillating style that the lawyer-politician diarists conspicuously lacked. Burlingame and Ettlinger’s edition of the diary is the first to publish the complete text of all of Hay’s entries from 1861 through 1864. In 1939 Tyler Dennett published Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, which, as Civil War historian Allan Nevins observed, was "rather casually edited." This new edition is essential in part because Dennett omitted approximately 10 percent of Hay’s 1861–64 entries. Not only did the Dennett edition omit important parts of the diaries, it also introduced some glaring errors. More than three decades ago, John R. Turner Ettlinger, then in charge of Special Collections at the Brown University Library, made a careful and literal transcript of the text of the diary, which involved deciphering Hay’s difficult and occasionally obscure writing. In particular, passages were restored that had been canceled, sometimes heavily, by the first editors for reasons of confidentiality and propriety. Ettlinger’s text forms the basis for the present edition, which also incorporates, with many additions and much updating by Burlingame, a body of notes providing a critical apparatus to the diary, identifying historical events and persons.
Author |
: Francis Bicknell Carpenter |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 1867 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:N10560700 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln by : Francis Bicknell Carpenter
Author |
: C. M. Gleason |
Publisher |
: Kensington Books |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2017-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496710208 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496710207 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Murder in the Lincoln White House by : C. M. Gleason
March 4, 1861: On the day of Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration, the last thing anyone wants is any sort of hitch in the proceedings—let alone murder! Fortunately the president has young Adam Quinn by his side . . . Lincoln’s trusted entourage is on their guard. Allan Pinkerton, head of the president’s security team, is wary of potential assassins. And Lincoln’s oldest friend, Joshua Speed, is by his side, along with Speed’s nephew, Adam Quinn—called back from the Kansas frontier to serve as the president’s assistant and jack-of-all-trades. Despite the tight security, trouble comes nonetheless. A man is found stabbed to death in a nearby room, only yards from the president. Not wishing to cause alarm, Lincoln dispatches young Quinn to discreetly investigate. Though he is new to Washington, DC, he must navigate through high society, political personages, and a city preparing for war in order to solve the crime. He finds unexpected allies in a determined female journalist named Sophie Gates, and Dr. Hilton, a free man of color. Together they must make haste to apprehend a killer. Nothing less than the fate of the nation is at stake . . .
Author |
: Elizabeth Brownstein |
Publisher |
: Trade Paper Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2005-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015062815520 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lincoln's Other White House by : Elizabeth Brownstein
Describes the sixteenth American president's secondary residence, a cottage on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home overlooking the capital, and details events from the time he and his family spent living there.
Author |
: Michael Burlingame |
Publisher |
: SIU Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2006-02-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0809326833 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780809326839 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis With Lincoln in the White House by : Michael Burlingame
From the time of Lincoln’s nomination for the presidency until his assassination, John G. Nicolay served as the Civil War president’s chief personal secretary. Nicolay became an intimate of Lincoln and probably knew him as well as anyone outside his own family. Unlike John Hay, his subordinate, Nicolay kept no diary, but he did write several memoranda recording his chief’s conversation that shed direct light on Lincoln. In his many letters to Hay, to his fiancée, Therena Bates, and to others, Nicolay often describes the mood at the White House as well as events there. He also expresses opinions that were almost certainly shaped by the president For this volume, Michael Burlingame includes all of Nicolay’s memoranda of conversations, all of the journal entries describing Lincoln’s activities, and excerpts from most of the nearly three hundred letters Nicolay wrote to Therena Bates between 1860 and 1865. He includes letters and portions of letters that describe Lincoln or the mood at the White House or that give Nicolay’s personal opinions. He also includes letters written by Nicolay while on troubleshooting missions for the president. An impoverished youth, Nicolay was an unlikely candidate for the important position he held during the Civil War. It was only over the strong objections of some powerful people that he became Lincoln’s private secretary after Lincoln’s nomination for the presidency in 1860. Prominent Chicago Republican Herman Kreismann found the appointment of a man so lacking in savoir faire “ridiculous.” Henry Martin Smith, city editor of the Chicago Tribune, called Nicolay’s appointment a national loss. Henry C.Whitney was surprised that the president would appoint a “nobody.” Lacking charm, Nicolay became known at the White House as the “bulldog in the ante-room” with a disposition “sour and crusty.” California journalist Noah Brooks deemed Nicolay a “grim Cerberus of Teutonic descent who guards the last door which opens into the awful presence.” Yet in some ways he was perfectly suited for the difficult job. William O. Stoddard, noting that Nicolay was not popular and could “say 'no'about as disagreeably as any man I ever knew,” still granted that Nicolay served Lincoln well because he was devoted and incorruptible. Stoddard concluded that Nicolay “deserves the thanks of all who loved Mr. Lincoln.” For his part, Nicolay said he derived his greatest satisfaction “from having enjoyed the privilege and honor of being Mr. Lincoln’s intimate and official private secretary, and of earning his cordial friendship and perfect trust.”
Author |
: Harold Holzer |
Publisher |
: SIU Press |
Total Pages |
: 438 |
Release |
: 2007-05-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0809327538 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780809327539 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lincoln's White House Secretary by : Harold Holzer
William Osborn Stoddard, Lincoln’s “third secretary” who worked alongside John G. Nicolay and John Hay in the White House from 1861 to 1865, completed his autobiography in 1907, one of more than one hundred books he wrote. An abridged version was published by his son in 1955 as “Lincoln’s Third Secretary: The Memoirs of William O. Stoddard.” In this new, edited version, Lincoln’s White House Secretary: The Adventurous Life of William O. Stoddard, Harold Holzer provides an introduction, afterword, and annotations and includes comments by Stoddard’s granddaughter, Eleanor Stoddard. The elegantly written volume gives readers a window into the politics, life, and culture of the mid-nineteenth century. Stoddard’s bracing writing, eye for detail, and ear for conversation bring a novelistic excitement to a story of childhood observations, young friendships, hardscrabble frontier farming, early hints of the slavery crisis, the workings of the Lincoln administration, and the strange course of war and reunion in the southwest. More than a clerk, Stoddard was an adventurous explorer of American life, a farmer, editor, soldier, and politician. Enhanced by seventeen illustrations, this narrative sympathetically draws the reader into the life and times of Lincoln’s third secretary, adding to our understanding of the events and the larger-than-life figures that shaped history.
Author |
: Demi |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 32 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1937786501 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781937786502 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis President Lincoln by : Demi
From a small log cabin in Kentucky to the frontier of Indiana to the steps of the White House, Abraham Lincoln rose from humble beginnings to become the sixteenth president of the United States.