Holland's Life of Abraham Lincoln
Soon after the assassination of President Lincoln in April 1865, newspaper editor Josiah Gilbert Holland traveled to Illinois to talk with people who had known Abraham Lincoln back when. In 1866 Holland published the earliest full-scale life of the fallen leader. A great popular success, Holland's biography introduced American readers who were hungry for personal information about Lincoln's early life to some of the most famous and enduring Lincoln stories. From Holland the reader learned about Lincoln making restitution for a ruined book, the railsplitter earning his first silver dollar, the millhorse's kick to his head, the wrestling match…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8032-7303-0
- EAN: 9780803273030
- Produktnummer: 9239069
- Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 536 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D3.3 cm 596 g
- Abbildungen: Illus
- Gewicht: 596
Über den Autor
J. G. Holland (1819-1881) was editor-in-chief of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican and founder of Scribner's Monthly. Introducer Allen C. Guelzo is the author of The Crisis of the American Republic: A History of the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. He is Grace F. Kea Professor of American History and chair of the History Department at Eastern College in Pennsylvania.
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