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Adam I.p. Smith - Abraham Lincoln: PocketGiants - 9780752497754 - V9780752497754
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Abraham Lincoln: PocketGiants

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Description for Abraham Lincoln: PocketGiants Paperback. Abraham Lincoln confronted the great questions of his age: slavery, democracy and nationalism. This biography explains the national and international factors that shaped the life and career of an ambitious, brilliant and rather strange man who rose to power at a moment when the modern world was taking shape. Series: Pocket Giants. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148.

The President who ‘freed’ the slaves and held the Union together in the face of the slaveholding South’s bid to create a separate Confederacy. The teller of ribald stories, and the author of the most sublime speeches in the English language. A clever, complex, secretive man who rose from frontier obscurity to become the central figure at the moment when the United States of America came close to disintegration.

Was Lincoln the ‘Great Emancipator’, whose wartime leadership helped free four million enslaved people? Or was he a nationalist who jumped late on the antislavery bandwagon? Was his intransigence the ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Pocket Giants
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752497754
SKU
V9780752497754
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