Abraham Lincoln, president-elect : the four critical months from election to inauguration / Larry D. Mansch.

078642026X (ill. case bdg. : alk. paper)

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2005.

ix, 228 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

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"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 1861; crowd reactions and Lincoln's occasional banter with individuals who called out to him are faithfully reproduced, as well"--Provided by publisher.

English

June 10, 2005

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-223) and index.