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Abraham Lincoln (1) (1809–1865)

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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis. In toon meer doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. Lincoln was a self-educated lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader and a state legislator in the 1830s. After a series of highly publicized debates in 1858, during which Lincoln spoke out against the expansion of slavery, he lost the U.S. Senate race to his archrival, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas. In 1860, Lincoln secured a Republican Party presidential nomination. His presidential election resulted in seven southern slave states to form the Confederacy before he took the office on March 4, 1861. Lincoln is regarded by historians as one of the greatest United States presidents. During his term, he created the system of national banks with the National Banking Act. This provided a strong financial network in the country. It also established a national currency. In 1862, Congress created, with Lincoln's approval, the Department of Agriculture. Lincoln was able to appoint five Supreme Court justices during his time as president. He is largely responsible for instituting the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address of 1863 became an iconic statement of America's dedication to the principles of nationalism, republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy. Lincoln held a moderate view of Reconstruction. On April 15, 1865, six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding General Robert E. Lee, Lincoln was assassinated at the Ford Theater by John Wilkes Booth, a noted actor and Confederate spy from Maryland. Lincoln was married to Mary Todd Lincoln on November 4, 1842. They had four children, all boys. Only the oldest, Robert, survived to adulthood. After Lincoln's death, Robert committed his mother, Mary, for a short time. The death of their children had a profound effect on the mental health of both Lincoln and his wife. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Photograph by Alexander Gardner, 1863.
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Great Speeches (1991) 918 exemplaren
The Gettysburg Address (1863) 771 exemplaren
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1958) 330 exemplaren
The Portable Abraham Lincoln (1992) 210 exemplaren
Selected Speeches and Writings (1992) 172 exemplaren
Lincoln; his words and his world (1955) 163 exemplaren
Lincoln on Democracy (1990) 102 exemplaren
The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) 92 exemplaren
Lincoln Speeches (Penguin Civic Classics) (2012) — Auteur — 84 exemplaren
Quotations of Abraham Lincoln (2004) 58 exemplaren
Abraham Lincoln in His Own Words (1994) 51 exemplaren
The Annotated Lincoln (2016) 25 exemplaren
Lincoln Stories for Leaders (1997) 24 exemplaren
Lincoln Letters (2005) 19 exemplaren
Conversations with Lincoln (2002) 16 exemplaren
Lincoln on Lincoln (1999) 16 exemplaren
A New Birth of Freedom 12 exemplaren
Lincoln (1965) 10 exemplaren
Speeches and Addresses (1900) 10 exemplaren
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The Lincoln treasury (1950) 8 exemplaren
Abraham Lincoln Interactive DVD (2005) 5 exemplaren
Abraham Lincoln's Don'ts (2010) 5 exemplaren
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The wisdom of Abraham Lincoln (2010) 3 exemplaren
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Letter to Mrs, Bixby 2 exemplaren
Poetry and prose (1956) 2 exemplaren
Speeches and Writings 2 exemplaren
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“A House Divided” 2 exemplaren
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This book is out of print, but you can get it for $6 ( $4 shipping) used from amazon. It’s a great collection of Lincoln’s speeches, correspondence and other writings, and it includes an approx. 200 page biography. The bio was written around 1940, and no doubt there’s more recent scholarship missing, but we’re spared the fashionable speculation about whether Lincoln was gay or some other insignifica which seem to be focal points for so many contemporary biographers and historians. Stern, as the reviewer on amazon says, “wisely respects the mysterious alchemy by which a plain man became a statesman; this respectful anthology seeks only to present Lincoln, not to explain him.” The bio’s a useful bonus, but the real matter belongs to Lincoln, and there’s 700 pages of it beyond the bio. Good stuff.… (meer)
 
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garbagedump | Dec 9, 2022 |
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations."

I wish we could have a president like Lincoln now!
 
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BooksbyStarlight | Oct 25, 2022 |
Ten historic speeches by America's greatest President
 
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Daniel464 | Jun 30, 2022 |
The words of the speech with striking illustrations.
 
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