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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal. Showing intelligence beyond society's expectations, fourteen-year-old Ana Ferreira lands a job in the...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biography of Abraham Lincoln presented in the form of a scrapbook dated one year after his assassination, with faux newspaper clippings and accounts of Lincoln's childhood, marriage, presidency, Civil War leadership, and shooting, as well as the capture and execution of the conspirators involved in his death.
13) Abraham Lincoln
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A brief overview of the life of the man who was President of the United States during the difficult years of the Civil War and who issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Physical Desc
xix, 916 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political talents identifies the character strengths and abilities that enabled his successful election, in an account that also describes how he used the same abilities to rally former opponents in winning the Civil War.
15) Lincoln's body
Author
Publisher
Highbridge
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 sound disc (12 hours, 45 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of aspect came to mean so much to us.The very roughness of Lincoln's appearance made him seem all the more common, one of us--as did his sense of humor about his own awkward physical nature.
17) Abraham Lincoln
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1957
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[56] p. illus. 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Text and illustrations depict the life of a boy born on the Kentucky frontier who became one of the most beloved presidents.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar...
19) Abraham Lincoln
Publisher
NEST Family Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Only one man stood in the way of the disintegration of the United States of America -- and he was a gangly, storytelling lawyer from Illinois with no political experience on the national level."