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"Gettysburg - the place of legends - the site of the largest battle on the American continent - inspiring a unique dedication ceremony for a national cemetery - compelling President Abraham Lincoln to come to Gettysburg to deliver what would become the most iconic speech in the history of the United States - the Gettysburg Address"--Cover.
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"Michael Burlingame is one of the foremost authorities on Abraham Lincoln in the world; as James McPherson wrote in The New York Review of Books, "The author knows more about Lincoln than any other living person." The author or editor of over a dozen volumes about Lincoln, he is the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield. This book represents an abridgement of his magisterial 2-volume...
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Abraham Lincoln's excruciating, yet highly productive, midlife crisis; his woeful marriage to a dishonest woman who often embarrassed and sometimes physically abused him; his intense estrangement from a shiftless father; his streak of cruelty; his explosive temper; and his aversion to women are among the topics covered by Michael Burlingame in The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln. Based primarily on long-neglected manuscript and newspaper sources -...
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