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Abraham Lincoln电子书

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作       者:John T. Morse

出  版  社:Seltzer Books

出版时间:2018-03-01

字       数:102.2万

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Classic biography of Lincoln, first published in 1899. According to Wikipedia: "According to Wikipedia: "Abraham Lincoln is a 2-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln written by John Torrey Morse (1840-1937). Originally published in 1893, the New York times found it to be "for its scope, admirable. It will even stand up and appear respectable in the most distinguished company of Lincoln biographies that might be assembled." The author is "a sane biographer, who brings to the task of writing about Lincoln a mind that aspires to see clear and think straight, instead of one held slavishly subject to a heart's desire to make Lincoln out a hero without fault or blemish." The Atlantic Monthly noted that Morse had "attempted a bit of scientific painting and not a portraiture to the life. The book is a criticism, consequently, rather than an appreciation." They also noted that Morse concentrates mostly on the five years that Lincoln was in office... In 1987, Gabor Boritt noted that Morse was the first biographer to have "fully exemplified as well as diagnosed the above ailment [the schism between the self-serving, not very admirable politician that Lincoln was up until 1860 versus the later "unparalleled greatness"]." Morse has written of "the insoluble problem of two men - two lives - one following the other with no visible link... we have physically one creature, morally and mentally two beings."
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN BY JOHN T. MORSE, JR.

VOLUME I.

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I THE RAW MATERIAL

CHAPTER II THE START IN LIFE

CHAPTER III LOVE; A DUEL; LAW, AND CONGRESS

CHAPTER IV NORTH AND SOUTH

CHAPTER V THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS JOINT DEBATE

CHAPTER VI ELECTION

CHAPTER VII INTERREGNUM

CHAPTER VIII THE BEGINNING OF WAR

CHAPTER IX A REAL PRESIDENT, AND NOT A REAL BATTLE

CHAPTER X THE FIRST ACT OF THE MCCLELLAN DRAMA

CHAPTER XI MILITARY MATTERS OUTSIDE OF VIRGINIA

CHAPTER XII FOREIGN AFFAIRS

VOLUME II.

CHAPTER I EMANCIPATION AND POLITICS

CHAPTER II THE SECOND ACT OF THE MCCLELLAN DRAMA

CHAPTER III THE THIRD AND CLOSING ACT OF THE MCCLELLAN DRAMA

CHAPTER IV THE AUTUMN ELECTIONS OF 1862, AND THE PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION

CHAPTER V BATTLES AND SIEGES: DECEMBER, 1862-DECEMBER, 1863

CHAPTER VI SUNDRIES

CHAPTER VII THE TURN OF THE TIDE

CHAPTER VIII RECONSTRUCTION

CHAPTER IX RENOMINATION

CHAPTER X MILITARY SUCCESSES, AND THE REELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT

CHAPTER XI THE END COMES INTO SIGHT: THE SECOND INAUGURATION

CHAPTER XII EMANCIPATION COMPLETED

CHAPTER XIII THE FALL OF RICHMOND, AND THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

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