Becoming Lincoln / William W. Freehling.

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"A biographical account of Abraham Lincoln's rises and falls on his improbable path to becoming the president who ended slavery" --

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freehling, William W., 1935- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Political career before 1861.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Political and social views.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Abraham Lincoln's political career before 1861.
Political and social views.
Presidents.
United States.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:x, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Prologue: A puzzling inauguration
  • The rising Lincolns and the Kentucky plummet
  • The Indiana plunge
  • The Illinois crash
  • The New Salem recovery
  • The rise and fall of a state legislator
  • The rise and limits of a pre-1850s lawyer
  • The rise and turbulence of a marriage
  • A congressional aspirant's rise
  • The Congressional fall
  • The Union's economic rescue
  • Three climactic railroad cases
  • The Peoria address and the strategy of defense
  • The 1855 setback
  • The lost/found speech
  • The Dred Scott case and the Kansas finale
  • The great debates
  • The cunning revisions
  • The Cooper Union address
  • The Presidential election and the fruits of revision
  • The erratic interregnum
  • The troubled inaugural address
  • Forts Sumter and Pickens and the emergence of an impressive administrator
  • Epilogue: (Slowly) Becoming a coercive emancipator.