366 Days in Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency: The Personal, Political, and Army Choices of America’s Biggest President

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In a startlingly modern format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln’s choices in workplace—together with his signing of the Homestead Act on Could 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 personal frustrations on September 28, 1862, as he wrote to vice chairman 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 details like how Lincoln hated to hunt however cherished to fireside 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 stated, “It’s from personal life, from acquainted, home, and seemingly trivial occurrences, that we most frequently obtain mild into the true character.”

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

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