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Language
English
Description
"For the first time, readers will experience America and rsquo;s gravest crisis through the eyes of the five former presidents who lived it. Author and historian Chris DeRose chronicles history and rsquo;s most epic Presidential Royal Rumble, which culminated in a multi-front effort against Lincoln and rsquo;s reelection bid, but not before: * John Tyler engaged in shuttle diplomacy between President Buchanan and the new Confederate Government. He...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
289 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reassesses the role of the California gold rush in the events leading up to the Civil War, analyzing the squabbling over bringing California into the union as a slave state, the political maneuverings and battles, and the economic factors involved.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xviii, 904 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"[In this book, the author] portrays revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated the extension of the American empire. Railroads, canals, newspapers, and the telegraph dramatically lowered travel times and spurred the spread of information. These innovations prompted the emergence of mass political parties and stimulated America's economic development from an overwhelmingly rural country to a diversified economy...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 758 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue in the country, Stephen Douglas, in the debates for a senate seat. He sidelines the frontrunner William Seward, a former governor and senator for New York, to cinch the new Republican Party's nomination. All the Powers of Earth is the political story of all time. Lincoln achieves the presidency by force of strategy, of political...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.7 - AR Pts: 30
Physical Desc
xv, 394 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of America's sixteenth president follows Lincoln's life and career during his rise to political power and his years in the White House, arguing that he looked beyond the political system to find support in his struggle to end slavery.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 413 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how America's second generation of political giants--Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Calhoun--battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the shape of our democracy. In the early days of the nineteenth century, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
421 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. One man we recognize: Andrew Jackson--war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South--whose first major initiative as President instigated the massive expulsion of Native Americans known as the Trail of Tears. The other is...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016-
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
4 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius--from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. The first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as 'a slave,' to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln. From his youth as a 'newsboy,' a voracious newspaper reader, Lincoln became a free thinker, reading Tom Paine, as well...
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