James B. Conroy

Lincoln's White House (eBook, PDF)

The People's House in Wartime

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Co-winner of the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Lincoln's White House is the first book devoted to capturing the look, feel, and smell of the executive mansion from Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 to his assassination in 1865. James Conroy brings to life the people who knew it, from servants to cabinet secretaries. We see the constant stream of visitors, from ordinary citizens to visiting dignitaries and diplomats. Conroy enables the reader to see how the Lincolns lived and how the administration conducted day-to-day business during four of the most tumultuous years in American history. Relying on fresh research and a character-driven narrative and drawing on untapped primary sources, he takes the reader on a behind-the-scenes tour that provides new insight into how Lincoln lived, led the government, conducted war, and ultimately, unified the country to build a better government of, by, and for the people.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216241386
• Artikelnr.: 74836012

Autorenporträt

James Conroy is the author of Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865 (Lyons Press, 2014) and Lincoln's White House: The People's House in Wartime (R&L, 2016), co-winner of the 2017 Gilder Lerhman Lincoln Prize and winner of the 2017 Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize. He resides on Boston's South Shore. Conroy speaks extensively and has been featured on C-Span Book TV.

Inhaltsangabe

Author's Note and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Painful Sense of Becoming Educated
2 A Strange Mixture of Enthusiasm and Greed
3 Plain and Simple in Its Appointments
4 A Miscellaneous Assortment of Life and Character
5 The White House Is Turned into Barracks
6 It Is Good to Look at Beauty Once in a While
7 Ink Stained and Work Worn
8 The Republican Queen in Her White Palace
9 This Is a God-Forsaken Hole
10 This Damned Old House
11 My Public Opinion Baths
12 Bright Jewels and Bright Eyes
13 Not an American Crime
14 Bundles and Bales
15 Like So Many Greenhead Flies
16 Crazy and Poetry
17 I Happen Temporarily to Occupy This Big White House
18 And Everything Seemed to Weep
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author