J michael gilmore biography of abraham lincoln
When Michael J Gilmore was born on 15 October , in Ireland, his father, Charles Gilmore, was 25 and his mother, Ella Dennehy, was
The first active peace commission involving President Lincoln was floated in May New York journalist and businessman James R. Gilmore spent two weeks with..
Abraham Lincoln: A Life
Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.
Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, freedom, and democracy, Abraham Lincoln is arguably the most studied and admired of all Americans.
Michael Burlingame's astonishing Abraham Lincoln: A Life, edited and abridged by Jonathan W. White, offers fresh interpretations of this endlessly fascinating American leader.
Based on deep research in unpublished sources as well as newly digitized sources, this work reveals how Lincoln's character and personality were the North's secret weapon in the Civil War, the key variables that spelled the difference between victory and defeat.
He was a model of psychological maturity and a fully individuated man whose influence remains unrivaled in the history of Ame