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Audiobooks BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State HISTORY / United States / 19th Century HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Livres audio Presidents United States Election 1860 United States History 1849-1877 États-Unis Histoire 1849-1877 États-Unis Politique et gouvernement 1857-1861Ellis, Joseph J.
Summary: "The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--brilliantly told--of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political guarantee that the colonies would...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.730 EllisLarson, Erik
Summary: On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2024