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1918., Yale University Press Call No: 973 C557 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Chronicles of America series Volume: v. 29
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1920., Yale University Press Call No: 973 C557 Edition: "Abraham Lincoln edition.". Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Chronicles of America series Volume: v.45
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c2013., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: 973.7 B789b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This book explores Canada's engagement in the American Civil War and helps to understand better both the war and how the British colonies saved themselves by becoming a nation.
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2022., G. P. Putnam's sons Call No: NEW Fic Fow Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An epic novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.
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2024., Crown Call No: NEW 973.711 L318d Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The Demon of Unrest brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.
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By Chernow, Ron2017., General, Penguin Press Call No: Bio G761c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Ron Chernow shows in his biography of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had ended dismally, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War, he ended up resigning from the army in disgrace amid recurring accusations of drunkenness. But in war, Grant began to realize his remarkable potential, soaring through the ranks of the Union army, prevailing at the Battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign, and ultimately defeating the legendary Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Along the way, Grant endeared himself to President Lincoln and became his most trusted general and the strategic genius of the war effort. Grant's military fame translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by corruption scandals involving his closest staff members. More important, he sought freedom and justice for black Americans, working to crush the Ku Klux Klan and earning the admiration of Frederick Douglass, who called him 'the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race.' After Grant's presidency, he was again brought low by a dashing young swindler on Wall Street, only to resuscitate his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs, which are recognized as a masterpiece of the genre. Chernow finds the threads that bind these disparate stories together, shedding new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as 'nothing heroic... and yet the greatest hero.' Chernow's portrait of Grant's lifelong struggle with alcoholism transforms our understanding of the man at the deepest level. Ron Chernow is the author of The House of Morgan, Washington: A Life, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Alexander Hamilton - the inspiration for the Broadway musical"--Provided by publisher.
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-- Canada and the Civil War plots against Lincoln.2023., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: NEW 973.7 S551n Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A riveting, dramatic account of the years, months and days leading up to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, revolving around the unexpected ways Canadians were deeply involved in every aspect of the American Civil War. Canadians take pride in being on the “good side†of the American Civil War, serving as a haven for 30,000 escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad. But dwelling in history's shadow is the much darker role Canada played in supporting the slave South and in fomenting the many plots against Lincoln. The North Star weaves together the different strands of several extraordinary Canadians and a handful of Confederate agents in Canada as they all make their separate, fateful journeys to the night of the assassination on April 14, 1865. They ended up crossing paths with Lincoln or his assassin John Wilkes Booth, as they were caught up in the maelstrom of history. The book shines a spotlight on the stories of such intrepid figures as Anderson Abbot, Canada’s first Black doctor, who joined the Union Army; Emma Edmonds, the New Brunswick woman who disguised herself as a man to enlist as a Union nurse; and Edward P. Doherty, the Quebec man who led the hunt to track down John Wilkes Booth. We also meet the wealthy men who aided and supported the Confederate side, such as Toronto aristocrat George Taylor Denison III and banker and Montreal mayor Henry Starnes. Sher creates vivid portraits of places we thought we knew. Montreal was a sort of 19th-century Casablanca of the North: a hub for assassins, money-men, mercenaries and soldiers on the run. Toronto was a headquarters for Confederate plotters and gun-runners. The two largest hotels in the country became nests of Confederate spies. Meticulously researched and richly illustrated, The North Star is a sweeping tale that makes long-ago events leap off the page with a relevance to today.
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-- Political genius of Abraham Lincolnc2005., Simon & Schuster Call No: 973.7 G656t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. Historian Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius, as the one-term congressman rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals to become president. When Lincoln emerged as the victor at the Republican National Convention, his rivals were dismayed. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery led inexorably to civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was because of his extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. It was this that enabled Lincoln to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union.
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-- Transformation of America, 1815-1848.c2007., Oxford University Press Call No: 973.5 H855w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Oxford history of the United States.
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2005, c2004., Doubleday Call No: Bio L736li Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view Summary Note: This intellectual biography uncovers the heart of Lincoln's public philosophy and places his ideals and presidential decisions within the context of his times. Lind dispels the popular image of Lincoln as a self-made man and a naive, inspired genius, and shows that the president was very much a product of his time and place, influenced by the pragmatism of his fellow Kentuckian Henry Clay, and by Enlightenment thinking. Lind asserts that Lincoln fought the Civil War not to free the slaves, or even to preserve the Constitution, but to ensure the survival of democracy. With the failure of numerous liberal revolutions throughout Europe in 1848 heightening the possibility that democracy itself would be deemed a noble but failed experiment, Lincoln realized that the stakes in the Civil War were nothing less than the future freedom and prosperity of all mankind. It was this conviction that determined his policies and compelled him to wage the war to the bitter end. Lind also reveals that Lincoln was not a Christian, but a deist who believed in the abstract deity posited by Enlightenment philosophers; and that although he believed slavery was evil, he opposed the idea of a multiracial country and supported the relocation of black Americans abroad.
