An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd, Hardcover - Michael Burlingame

An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Ab...

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Reducere. Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the prejudice of his...

Reducere. From the author of Lincoln: A Photobiography, comes a clear-sighted, carefully researched account of two surprisingly parallel lives and how they i...

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Reducere. Help kids ages 6 to 9 discover the life of Abraham Lincoln―a story about honesty, leadership, and staying true to your valuesDelve into the life of...

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Reducere. In Bloody Crimes, James L. Swanson--the Edgar(R) Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt--brings to life two epic events of the...

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This is a wonderful collection of Lincoln's most famous speeches in complete and unabridged form. The simple yet memorable eloquence of his speeche...

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Reducere. The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock fas...

Part of the best-selling The Story of . . . series, this biographical board book tells the story of Abraham Lincoln using simple words and bright a...

Reducere. The "Trials of Nance" is the true story of the three Supreme Court Trials of Mrs. Nance Legins-Costley (1813-1873) in Illinois. The dramatic non-fi...

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Reducere. Discover the life of Abraham Lincoln--a story about honesty, leadership, and staying true to your valuesDelve into the life of the 16th president o...

Reducere. Winston Churchill was only 20 when he met the man whom he credited, more than any other, with shaping him as a statesman and an orator. As Churchil...

Reducere. A thrilling, moment by moment account of an epic World War II escape and the real-life adventures that followed.On August 30, 1942 - 'Zero Night' -...

Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593), is the biography of William Ashby, Elizabethan spy and diplomat who was am...

On July 18, 1969, a car driven by Senator Edward M. Kennedy plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, off the coast of Cape Cod. Mary Jo Kopec...

Reducere. America's greatest president, who rose to power in the country's greatest hour of need and whose vision saw the United States through the Civil War...

Reducere. Few famous humans came into the world under such humble circumstances as Abraham Lincoln on February 12, 1809. But it may very well be that the hum...

Reducere. Based on sworn and witnessed court records, it's the true story of the three Supreme Court trials of the first slave freed by a young lawyer, Abrah...

"A compelling narrative of survival and redemption." --Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the SnowmanForty years before the names Snowden and...

Reducere. On April 14, 1865, only days after the Civil War had come to a close, a gunshot rang out in Ford's Theatre and President Abraham Lincoln slumped fo...

Reducere. First published in 1911, The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln was privately printed by Frederick Hill Meserve, the preeminent historian of the photog...

Reducere. She's the most famous woman in history, yet almost nothing is known about her. Although she's portrayed as the gentlest and most tragic of all wome...

Reducere. Author Francis Bradford, a former Hall-Scott engineer, provides valuable resources and insight not available to any other Hall-Scott researcher. We...

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