{"product_id":"abraham-lincoln-9781421445557","title":"Abraham Lincoln","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e1. \"I Have Seen a Good Deal of the Back Side of This World\": Childhood in Kentucky (1809-1816)\u003cbr\u003e2. \"I Used to be a Slave\": Boyhood and Adolescence in Indiana (1816-1830)\u003cbr\u003e3. \"Separated from His Father, He Studied English Grammar\": New Salem (1831-1834)\u003cbr\u003e4. \"A Napoleon of Astuteness and Political Finesse\": Frontier Legislator (1834-1837)\u003cbr\u003e5. \"We Must Fight the Devil With Fire\": Slasher-Gaff Politico in Springfield (1837-1841)\u003cbr\u003e6. \"It Would Just Kill Me to Marry Mary Todd\": Courtship and Marriage (1840-1842)\u003cbr\u003e7. \"I Have Got the Preacher by the Balls\": Pursuing a Seat in Congress (1843-1847)\u003cbr\u003e8. \"A Strong but Judicious Enemy to Slavery\": Congressman Lincoln (1847-1849)\u003cbr\u003e9. \"I Was Losing Interest in Politics and Went to the Practice of Law with Greater Earnestness Than Ever Before\": Mid-Life Crisis (1849-1854)\u003cbr\u003e10. \"Aroused As He Had Never Been Before\": Reentering Politics (1854-1855)\u003cbr\u003e11. \"Unite with Us, and Help Us to Triumph\": Building the Illinois Republican Party (1855-1857)\u003cbr\u003e12. \"A House Divided\": Lincoln vs. Douglas (1857-1858)\u003cbr\u003e13. \"A David Greater than the Democratic Goliath\": The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)\u003cbr\u003e14. That Presidential Grub Gnaws Deep: Pursuing the Republican Nomination (1859-1860)\u003cbr\u003e15. \"The Most Available Presidential Candidate for Unadulterated Republicans\": The Chicago Convention (May 1860)\u003cbr\u003e16. \"I Have Been Elected Mainly on the Cry 'Honest Old Abe'\": The Presidential Campaign (May-November 1860)\u003cbr\u003e17. \"I Will Suffer Death Before I Will Consent to Any Concession or Compromise\": President-elect in Springfield (1860-1861)\u003cbr\u003e18. \"What If I Appoint Cameron, Whose Very Name Stinks in the Nostrils of the People for His Corruption?\": Cabinet-Making in Springfield (1860-1861)\u003cbr\u003e19. \"The Man Does Not Live Who Is More Devoted to Peace Than I Am, But It May Be Necessary to Put the Foot Down Firmly\": From Springfield to Washington (February 11-22, 1861)\u003cbr\u003e20. \"I Am Now Going To Be Master\": Inauguration (February 23-March 4, 1861)\u003cbr\u003e21. \"A Man So Busy Letting Rooms in One End of His House, That He Can't Stop to Put Out the Fire that is Burning in the Other\": Distributing Patronage (March-April 1861)\u003cbr\u003e22. \"You Can Have No Conflict Without Being Yourselves the Aggressors\": The Fort Sumter Crisis (March-April 1861)\u003cbr\u003e23. \"I Intend to Give Blows\": The Hundred Days (April-July 1861)\u003cbr\u003e24. Sitzkrieg: The Phony War (August 1861-January 1862)\u003cbr\u003e25. \"This Damned Old House\": The Lincoln Family in the Executive Mansion\u003cbr\u003e26. \"I Expect to Maintain This Contest Until Successful, or Till I Die, or Am Conquered, or My Term Expires, or Congress or the Country Forsakes Me\": From the Slough of Despond to the Gates of Richmond (January-July, 1862)\u003cbr\u003e27. \"The Hour Comes for Dealing with Slavery\": Playing the Last Trump Card (January-July 1862)\u003cbr\u003e28. \"Would You Prosecute the War with Elder-Stalk Squirts, Charged with Rose Water?\": The Soft War Turns Hard (July-September 1862)\u003cbr\u003e29. \"I Am Not a Bold Man, But I Have the Knack of Sticking to My Promises!\": The Emancipation Proclamation (September-December 1862)\u003cbr\u003e30. \"Go Forward, and Give Us Victories\": From the Mud March to Gettysburg (January-July 1863)\u003cbr\u003e31. \"The Signs Look Better\": Victory at the Polls and in the Field (July-November 1863)\u003cbr\u003e32. \"I Hope to Stand Firm Enough to Not Go Backward, and Yet Not Go Forward Fast Enough to Wreck the Country's Cause\": Reconstruction and Renomination (November 1863-June 1864)\u003cbr\u003e33. \"Hold On with a Bulldog Grip and Chew and Choke as Much as Possible\": The Grand Offensive (May-August 1864)\u003cbr\u003e34. \"The Wisest Radical of All\": Reelection (September-November 1864)\u003cbr\u003e35. \"Let the Thing Be Pressed\": Victory at Last (November 1864-April 8, 1865)\u003cbr\u003e36. \"This War Is Eating My Life Out; I Have a Strong Impression That I Shall Not Live to See the End\": (April 9-15, 1865)\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408148144471,"sku":"9781421445557","price":26.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421445557.jpg?v=1730501765","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/abraham-lincoln-9781421445557","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}