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| Publisher | The History Press Ltd |
| ISBN 13 | 9780752497754 |
| Book Subtitle | Pocket Giants |
| Book Description | The President who `freed' the slaves and held the Union together in the face of the slaveholding South's bid to create a separate Confederacy. The teller of ribald stories, and the author of the most sublime speeches in the English language. A clever, complex, secretive man who rose from frontier obscurity to become the central figure at the moment when the United States of America came close to disintegration. Was Lincoln the `Great Emancipator', whose wartime leadership helped free four million enslaved people? Or was he a nationalist who jumped late on the antislavery bandwagon? Was his intransigence the cause of much bloodshed? Or was he a pragmatist whose leadership minimised the destruction of the war?. This concise biography situates Lincoln in his time and place. A very human figure who, after his assassination by a leading Shakespearean actor, was turned into an icon. |
| About the Author | Adam I. P. Smith is the author of The American Civil War and No Party Now. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Adam I. P. Smith |
| Publication Date | 5/1/2016 |
| Number of Pages | 128 |
Abraham Lincoln: Pocket Giants Paperback English by Adam I. P. Smith - 5/1/2016
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