Indiscutivelmente um dos personagens da história norte-americana mais conhecido do mundo, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) liderou seu país através da conturbada Guerra Civil Americana, momento significativo para a abolição da escravidão nos Estados Unidos. Ele também foi um político notavelmente astuto e envolvido com os líderes do resto país, buscando manter a integridade territorial apesar dos conflitos. Stephenson escreveu uma biografia envolvente, detalhada e bem pesquisada fazendo com que...

Em “Lincoln” Nathaniel Stephenson retrata brilhantemente a ascensão gradual de Abraham Lincoln do humilde início na área rural do estado de Kentucky para os círculos políticos sempre em expansão em Illinois, e finalmente para a presidência de um país dividido pela guerra civil. O livro vai além da biografia, destacando o desenvolvimento gradual do caráter de Lincoln, relatando sua tremenda capacidade de evolução e crescimento, ilustrando assim o que tornou possível para um...

Fox News star Lawrence Jones delivers the common sense book America needs more than ever in this definitive takedown of the left’s never-ending attacks on masculinity.A generation ago it was understood that men and women were unique, yet interdependent, and designed by God to be that way. Today, the woke crowd wants you to believe masculinity is “toxic.” In his first book, Lawrence embarks on a thorough examination of who is doing the attacking and why. Informed by...

In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation’s sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a “new birth of freedom.” Lincoln’s Unfinished Work analyzes how the United States has attempted to realize—or subvert—that promise over the past century and a half. The volume is not solely about Lincoln, or the immediate unfinished work of Reconstruction, or the broader unfinished work of America coming to terms with its tangled history of race; it investigates all...

Today more than ever, series finales have become cultural touchstones that feed watercooler fodder and Twitter storms among a committed community of viewers. While the final episodes of The Fugitive and M*A*S*H continue to rank among the highest rated broadcasts, more recent shows draw legions of binge-watching fans. Given the importance of finales to viewers and critics alike, Howard and Bianculli along with the other contributors explore these endings and what they mean to the audience, ...

"Especially of its springs of action as revealed and deepened by the ordeal of war". According to Wikipedia: "Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1861 until his assassination. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his term, he helped preserve the United States by le...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

In spite of a lapse of sixty years, the historian who attempts to portray the era of Lincoln is still faced with almost impossible demands and still confronted with arbitrary points of view. It is out of the question, in a book so brief as this must necessarily be, to meet all these demands or to alter these points of view. Interests that are purely local, events that did not with certainty contribute to the final outcome, gossip, as well as the mere caprice of the scholar— these must obvious...

In this book, Colton chose March 4, 1861, to visit Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad, for his first history lesson. Then they will travel to New Jersey on December 31, 1879, to help Thomas Edison light up Menlo Park. Their final voyage will be on May 14, 1908, to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to see The Wright Brothers, where Colton will give Orville a once-in-a-lifetime ride in their airplane.From then on, Colton will be one busy little boy, finding and car...

John Bevan finally found the loving family he lacked as an orphaned child. Then a fatal car accident steals away all he loves most. John erects two small crosses at the scene of the accident. One day, he meets a young man who is touching up the crosses with white paint-a man he knows only as The Cross Gardener. Their conversations and travels transform John's life, because The Cross Gardener's knowledge is heaven-sent...

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Unlock the more straightforward side of Lincoln in the Bardo with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, which tells of Abraham Lincoln’s visits to the graveyard where his young son Willie has just been buried. As well has mourning his son’s premature death, Lincoln wrestles with his conflicting feelings about the Civil War, which at that time was an u...