366 Days in Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency: The Non-public, Political, and Navy Selections of America’s Best President

In a startlingly progressive format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln’s selections in workplace—together with his signing of the Homestead Act on Might 20, 1862; his signing of the laws enacting the primary federal earnings tax on August 5, 1861; and extra private incidents just like the day his eleven-year-old son, Willie, died. Revealed are Lincoln’s non-public frustrations on September 28, 1862, as he wrote to vp Hannibal Hamlin, “The North responds to the [Emancipation] proclamation sufficiently with breath; however breath alone kills no rebels.”

366 Days in Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency contains fascinating info like how Lincoln hated to hunt however cherished to fireplace weapons close to the unfinished Washington monument, how he was the one president to personal a patent, and the way he recited Scottish poetry to alleviate stress. As Scottish historian Hugh Blair mentioned, “It’s from non-public life, from acquainted, home, and seemingly trivial occurrences, that we most frequently obtain gentle into the actual character.”

Protecting 366 nonconsecutive days (together with a leap day) of Lincoln’s presidency, it is a wealthy, thrilling new perspective of our most well-known president. This can be a must-have version for any historian, army historical past or civil conflict buff, or reader of biographies.