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John Quincy Adams
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Robert Vincent Remini |
"Heavy were the burdens of John Quincy Adams's upbringing. Son of the forbidding John Adams and the domineering Abigail, puritanical New Englanders both, he was driven from the earliest age to a life… |
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Polk
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Walter R. Borneman |
In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White H… |
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Abraham Lincoln, president-elect
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Larry D. Mansch |
"This work utilizes newspaper accounts from across America, journals and diaries of his contemporaries, and correspondence. Lincoln's speeches also appear here as they did in newspapers in 1860 and 1… |
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Nation builder
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Charles N. Edel |
America's rise from a confederation of revolutionary colonies to a world power is often seen as inevitable, but Charles N. Edel's provocative biography argues that Adams served as the central archite… |
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1858
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Bruce Chadwick |
"Highly recommended–a gripping narrative of the critical year of 1858 and the nation's slide toward disunion and war. Chadwick is especially adept at retelling the intense emotions of this critical t… |
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Apostles of disunion
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Charles B. Dew |
"In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the slave South carrying a fervent message in pursuit of a clear goal: to persuade the political leaders… |
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Lincoln for president
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Timothy S. Good |
"This work is the narrative of Abraham Lincoln's bid for the White House from 1858 through 1860. This work offers a day-by-day account that demonstrates how Lincoln's character, and his upholding of … |
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