366 Days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency: The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President

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In a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincolns decisions in officeincluding his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his eleven-year-old son, Willie, died. Revealed are Lincolns private frustrations on September 28, 1862, as he wrote to vice president Hannibal Hamlin, The North responds to the [Emancipation] proclamation sufficiently with breath; but breath alone kills no rebels.
366 Days in Abraham Lincolns Presidency includes fascinating facts like how Lincoln hated to hunt but loved to fire guns near the unfinished Washington monument, how he was the only president to own a patent, and how he recited Scottish poetry to relieve stress. As Scottish historian Hugh Blair said, It is from private life, from familiar, domestic, and seemingly trivial occurrences, that we most often receive light into the real character.
Covering 366 nonconsecutive days (including a leap day) of Lincolns presidency, this is a rich, exciting new perspective of our most famous president. This is a must-have edition for any historian, military history or civil war buff, or reader of biographies.

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With calendar-style organization showing Lincolns attitudes and responses to the course of events, Wynaldas vignettes accessibly introduce the Civil Wars key historical character.
With calendar-style organization showing Lincoln's attitudes and responses to the course of events, Wynalda's vignettes accessibly introduce the Civil War's key historical character.

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Harry Turtledove is the New York Times bestselling author of over seventy novels. He is a winner of science fiction's Hugo and Nebula awards, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. Turtledove holds a Ph.D. in Byzantine history from UCLA, and lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife, the novelist Laura Frankos.