| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxxvi, 376 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-360) and index. |
| Contents |
Bloody Gashes on the Face of Heaven -- One and a Half Times Bigger -- A Message from Grant -- The Real Precious and Royal Ones -- Meditation on the Divine Will -- Public Sentiment Is Everything -- Indefinable Fascination -- The Blighting Pestilence -- There Was Murder in the Air -- A Future with Hope in It -- Andy Ain't a Drunkard -- An Excellent Chance to Kill the President -- With Malice toward None -- A Truth That Needed to Be Told -- A Sacred Effort -- Epilogue: The Stuff to Carry Them Through. |
| Indexed In: |
Booklist, February 2020 |
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Kirkus Review, January 2020 |
| Summary |
"By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. That day, after a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington's Capitol grounds to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a second term. As the sun emerged, Lincoln rose to give perhaps the greatest inaugural address in American history, stunning the nation byarguing, in a brief 701 words, that both sides had been wrong, and that the war's unimaginable horrors--every drop of blood spilled--might well have been God's just verdict on the national sin of slavery . . . [the author] captures the frenzy in the nation's capital at this crucial moment in America's history and the tension-filled hope and despair afflicting the country as a whole, soon to be heightened by Lincoln's assassination"--Provided by publisher. |
| Audience |
Adult Follett School Solutions. |
| Subject |
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Inauguration.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Influence.
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Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs.
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Washington (D.C.) -- Politics and government.
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Washington (D.C.) -- History.
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United States -- History -- 1861-1865, Civil War.
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| ISBN |
9780802148742 |
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