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505 pages : 22 cm "First edition." "Sources": pages 465-482 Questions that would unavoidably come in due time -- Men bred in courts accustomed to the world -- Whom could he trust, if not the secretary of state? -- No lawyer and no statesman -- Noisy jackasses -- They're having fits in the White House tonight -- Dictators and soldiers of fortune -- The capture of Mason and Slidell -- Give up the men! -- Stone fleets and wooden nutmegs : January 1862 -- Cold, fever, and then delirium -- Antietam : Lincoln faces the crisis -- "I am a slow walker but I never walk back" -- Lincoln's propaganda -- A man whose nights are sleepless -- Gettysburg : end of British enmity -- Lincoln tells Europe -- It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river -- A joke worthy of Abraham Lincoln himself -- Every gambler in the blue grass will recognize you -- A ship sailing to an unknown shore -- Epilogue : silver face in the night

Author

Jay Monaghan

Publisher

Indianapolis, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company

Published

1945

Language

EN