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To produce the book, Saunders conducted extensive research on Lincoln and the Civil War, consulting, among other books, Edmund Wilson's Patriotic Gore (1962). [20] Saunders rearranged historical sources to get at the "necessary historical facts", and included excerpts from them in the novel. [ 19 ]
The book begins with an introduction where Goodwin explains how she plans to illuminate Lincoln's life: "In my own effort to illuminate the character and career of Abraham Lincoln, I have coupled the account of his life with the stories of the remarkable men who were his rivals for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination—New York senator William H. Seward, Ohio governor Salmon P. Chase ...
In discussion with the strangers he meets there, he discovers that he has been transported back in time to April 14, 1865, the date of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. Corrigan rushes to Ford's Theatre to warn everyone but is arrested for disturbing the peace. Only one officer believes Corrigan, but is overruled by his ...
Yahya Ahmed Aflal, 6, has his photograph taken with a statue of President Abraham Lincoln following a citizenship ceremony at President Lincoln's Cottage in May 2016. - Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Ever since the first season of Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer, the showrunners have been preparing viewers for Gods of Guilt, the fifth book in the legal series created by Michael Connelly. The ...
Abraham Lincoln, a portrait by Mathew Brady taken February 27, 1860, the day of Lincoln's Cooper Union speech in New York City. Lincoln accepted the nomination with great enthusiasm and zeal. After his nomination he delivered his House Divided Speech, with the biblical reference Mark 3:25, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe ...
Amor Towles has transported readers to a hotel in a changing Russia ("A Gentleman in Moscow") and the roads of the U.S. in the 1950's ("The Lincoln Highway," a Read With Jenna pick).For his next ...
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America is a 2023 nonfiction book by Steve Inskeep, about Abraham Lincoln.. The title of the work originates from the phrase "If for this you and I must differ, differ we must," which Lincoln wrote inside correspondence to Joshua Fry "Josh" Speed, referring to his disagreement with Speed's viewpoints, as Speed's family owned slaves.