Abraham Lincoln by Albert Shaw; profusely illustrated with contemporary cartoons, portraits and scenes
Date
1929
1857-1861
author
Shaw, Albert 1857-1947
Subject
Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865
Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865
Notes
On cover: A cartoon history
Contents
v. 1. His path to the presidency. Lincoln's place in history -- The presidential office -- The education of a future president -- A frontier youth encounters slavery -- Lincoln's first taste of politics and war -- Lincoln becomes a lawmaker -- A definite position on the slave question -- Emancipation projects: Lincoln's plan -- A crisis in national banking -- The boisterous Harrison campaign -- Tyler: a president without a party -- Clay loses his third campaign -- War with Mexico: the Oregon crisis -- Lincoln, the Congressman -- Washington in Polk's time -- Lincoln a leader in the politics of 1848 -- Lincoln returns to private life -- Birth of the Republican Party -- The presidential election of 1856 -- Lincoln and Douglas: a supreme debate -- How the two Illinois rivals stood -- Douglas wins a costly victory -- Buchanan surveys the world at large -- John Brown attempts emancipation -- Congress meets in bitter dissension -- Lincoln addresses the East
v. 1. His path to the presidency.--v. 2. The year of his election. Opening scenes of a political year -- Hopeless division at Charleston -- Guiding minds at the capitol -- A genuine middle-ground party -- The Republican Convention at Chicago -- Abraham Lincoln is nominated -- Why Seward was not available -- The compromise that made Lincoln famous -- Northern Democrats nominate Douglas -- Breckinridge the southern choice -- What manner of men are these? -- Lincoln in the half-year's contest -- Douglas in the campaign, and after -- Mr. Buchanan entertains, in a trying season -- South Carolina takes steps -- Secession vs. coercion: the dilemma -- Three months of futile talk in Congress -- The cotton states in flight -- The Confederacy organizes -- Loyalists now surround Buchanan -- "Defensive coercion": a new policy -- Lincoln takes command of his party -- Cameron: an episode in cabinet making -- Seward: principal or under-study? -- Lincolns and Todds: a family chapter -- A triumphal tour, with its anti-climax -- Scenes of a well-ordered inauguration
Place
United States
États-Unis
Data Source
Smithsonian Libraries
Call number
CT275.L73 S5
E457.3 .S51X
CT275.L73S5
E457.3.S51X
Type
Books
Caricatures and cartoons
Pictorial works
Caricature
caricatures
Caricatures
Physical description
2 v illustrations (including portraits, maps) 28 cm