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Great courses (DVD)Meacham, Jon
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LINCOLN MEAMeacham, Jon
Summary: Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINMeacham, Jon
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LINKendrick, Paul
Summary: Describes how Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass set the groundwork in three historic meetings to abolish slavery in the United States, despite their differing perspectives on the war and the institution of slavery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KENFoner, Eric.
Summary: In a landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Foner gives us a life of Lincoln as it intertwined with slavery, the defining issue of the time and the tragic hallmark of American history. The author demonstrates how Lincoln navigated a dynamic political landscape deftly, moving in measured steps, often on a path forged by abolitionists and radicals in his party, and that Lincoln's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 FONKlingaman, William K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KLILincoln, Abraham
Summary: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents the full range of Lincoln's views, gathered from his private letters, speeches, official documents, and even race jokes, arranged chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1860s. --from publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 LINWhite, Jonathan W.
Summary: "Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln's then-unprecedented welcome of African Americans to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. Drawing from an array of primary sources, White reveals how the Great Emancipator used the White House as the stage to empower Black voices in our country's most divisive era"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 WHIKaplan, Fred
Summary: Explores how the differing experiences and viewpoints of two Presidents shaped slavery and race relations in America for more than a century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KAPSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010