Peter de villiers biography of abraham lincoln
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A Topic Best Avoided
On the evening of 11 April , Abraham Lincoln spoke to a crowd in Washington about black suffrage. The Civil War had been over for a week. Lincoln had already walked the streets of Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, taking in the devastation at first hand. ‘The only people who showed themselves were negroes,’ the radical medlem av senat Charles Sumner noted. The president had been thinking about what would happen after the war since , when his generals began to seize swathes of Confederate territory, but had stubbornly resisted the idea that emancipated slaves would have to be given the vote to consolidate their freedom. Perhaps what he saw in Richmond changed his mind: the eerie absence of the city’s white inhabitants confirmed what Sumner saw as ‘the utter impossibility of any organisation which is not founded on the votes of negroes’. When Lincoln spoke from the vit House balcony a week later, he was characteristically cau
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Abraham Lincoln
(Lincoln, Abraham, )
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- Lincoln, Abraham, "A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand": The ord of This Celebrated Speech as Originally Written, Paragraphed, Italicized and Proofread by its Author, Printed in its Entirety for the First Time Since its Contemporary Publication (Chicago and New York: Black Cat Press, ), ed. by Douglas C. McMurtrie
- Lincoln, Abraham, , contrib.: Abraham Lincoln (), 16th President of the United States of America, bygd United States Information Agency (multiple editions)
- Lincoln, Abraham, , contrib.: Abraham Lincoln (), 16th President of the United States of America (English-language edition), by United States Information Agency (multiple formats at )
- Lincoln, Abraham, , contrib.: Abraham Lincoln (), Presiden Amerika Serikat jang ke (Indonesian edition), by United States upplysning Agency (multiple formats a
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One Must Tell the Bees: Abraham Lincoln and the Final Education of Sherlock Holmes
Written by J. Lawrence Matthews
Review by Richard Henry Abramson
In One Must Tell the Bees, a young Sherlock Holmes travels to America in , the last year of the Civil War. Zelig-like, Sherlock applies his emerging deductive talents to a mystery at the du Pont powder works, gets to know President Lincoln and his family and, when the President’s assassinated, plays a role in tracking down John Wilkes Booth. These events are depicted through a memoir written by Sherlock, and the narrative alternates between the memoir and the present, in which Dr. Watson is confronted by a murder on the train he has boarded in response to Sherlock’s urgent summons.
Throughout, author J. Lawrence Matthews’ scholarship is impressive, whether he’s exposing famed detective Allen Pinkerton as an arrogant fraud, commenting on the moral complexities of Stonewall Jackson, or tracing Booth’s movements as he flees