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Lincoln S Better Angel
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Author : David L. Selby
language : en
Publisher: Mayhaven Pub
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Lincoln S Better Angel written by David L. Selby and has been published by Mayhaven Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Fiction categories.
On a steamy July 4th, a man who cares for the Lincoln Monument in Washington D.C. meets a man who professes to be Abraham Lincoln. This novel presents a ghost story that crosses across generations, wars, and perceptions.
The Better Angel
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Author : Daniel M. Callaghan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Better Angel written by Daniel M. Callaghan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with United States categories.
March 1861. The Lincoln family--loud, western and unrefined--arrive in Washington as the country hurtles towards disunion. Abraham Lincoln is immediately besieged on all sides by those who would betray him; those within his own cabinet, who believed they were wrongfully denied the presidency; those without, for whom civil war is not something to be avoided, but an opportunity to rid the country of slavery, whatever the cost. Amidst these struggles, his family proved a mixed blessing. His wife finds it difficult to adjust to spiteful Washington. A greater hurt is the betrayal of her husband. She, who plotted and toiled with Mr. Lincoln to reach the presidency, now finds herself isolated and ignored as he deals with endless matters, and relies more and more for companionship on his young secretaries, As the Lincolns grow apart, their only shared joy appears to be their youngest sons, Tad and Willie. Yet within a year of their arrival, tragedy awaits.
Angels And Ages
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Author : Adam Gopnik
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-04-01
Angels And Ages written by Adam Gopnik and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Adam Gopnik has taken a coincidence and turned it into a theory of everything, or at least of everything important ... Outstanding' - Andrew Marr On February 12th, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. Each would see his life's work transform mankind's understanding of itself. In this bicentennial twin portrait, Adam Gopnik shows how these two giants, who never met, changed the way we think about the very nature of existence, and that their great achievements proceeded from the same source: argument from reason. The revolutions they effected shaped the world we live in, while the intellectual heritage and method that informed their parallel lives has profound implications for our present age. Filled with little-known stories and unfamiliar characters, Angels and Ages reveals these men in a new, shared light, and provides a fascinating insight into the origins of our modern vision and liberal values.
The Better Angels
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Author : Walter Oleksy
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-08-15
The Better Angels written by Walter Oleksy and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-15 with Housekeepers categories.
"The better angels: the Springfield years of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln and their sons offers new insight into their lives from 1850 when he was a country lawyer up to 1860 when he was elected president of the United States and the Lincolns moved to Washington. The Lincoln boys were lovable and loved, but often were very mischievous, to the delight of their father and tolerance of their mother. Their Springfield lives is based on the recollections of a black woman, Mariah Vance, wife of a runaway slave, who recalled her ten years as laundress and housekeeper to Abe and Mary in their home in Springfield during those ten years. None of her controversial recollections from a previous book, Lincoln's Unknown Private Life, which some Lincoln scholars said they did not believe, are included in this book." -- cover.
The Better Angels Of Our Nature
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Author : Steven Pinker
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-10-04
The Better Angels Of Our Nature written by Steven Pinker and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-04 with Psychology categories.
“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read." —Bill Gates (May, 2017) Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year The author of Rationality and Enlightenment Now offers a provocative and surprising history of violence. Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millenia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence. For most of history, war, slavery, infanticide, child abuse, assassinations, programs, gruesom punishments, deadly quarrels, and genocide were ordinary features of life. But today, Pinker shows (with the help of more than a hundred graphs and maps) all these forms of violence have dwindled and are widely condemned. How has this happened? This groundbreaking book continues Pinker's exploration of the esesnce of human nature, mixing psychology and history to provide a remarkable picture of an increasingly nonviolent world. The key, he explains, is to understand our intrinsic motives--the inner demons that incline us toward violence and the better angels that steer us away--and how changing circumstances have allowed our better angels to prevail. Exploding fatalist myths about humankind's inherent violence and the curse of modernity, this ambitious and provocative book is sure to be hotly debated in living rooms and the Pentagon alike, and will challenge and change the way we think about our society.
Wrestling With His Angel
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Author : Sidney Blumenthal
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-05-16
Wrestling With His Angel written by Sidney Blumenthal and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Explores how the sixteenth president rebounded from the disintegration of the Whig Party and took on the anti-Immigration party in Illinois to clear a path for a new Republican Party.
The Soul Of America
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Author : Jon Meacham
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-05-08
The Soul Of America written by Jon Meacham and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-08 with History categories.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Christian Science Monitor • Southern Living Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Lost Cause; the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the fight for women’s rights; the demagoguery of Huey Long and Father Coughlin and the isolationist work of America First in the years before World War II; the anti-Communist witch-hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy; and Lyndon Johnson’s crusade against Jim Crow. Each of these dramatic hours in our national life have been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear—a struggle that continues even now. While the American story has not always—or even often—been heroic, we have been sustained by a belief in progress even in the gloomiest of times. In this inspiring book, Meacham reassures us, “The good news is that we have come through such darkness before”—as, time and again, Lincoln’s better angels have found a way to prevail. Praise for The Soul of America “Brilliant, fascinating, timely . . . With compelling narratives of past eras of strife and disenchantment, Meacham offers wisdom for our own time.”—Walter Isaacson “Gripping and inspiring, The Soul of America is Jon Meacham’s declaration of his faith in America.”—Newsday “Meacham gives readers a long-term perspective on American history and a reason to believe the soul of America is ultimately one of kindness and caring, not rancor and paranoia.”—USA Today
The Better Angel
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Author : Roy Morris
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000-07-27
The Better Angel written by Roy Morris and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-27 with History categories.
For nearly three years, Walt Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and recording his experiences with an immediacy and compassion unequaled in wartime literature anywhere in the world. In The Better Angel, acclaimed biographer Roy Morris, Jr. gives us the fullest account of Whitman's profoundly transformative Civil War years and an historically invaluable examination of the Union's treatment of its sick and wounded. Whitman was mired in depression as the war began, subsisting on journalistic hackwork, his "great career" as a poet apparently stalled. But when news came that his brother George had been wounded at Fredericksburg, Whitman rushed south to find him. Deeply affected by his first view of the war's casualties, he began visiting the camp's wounded and found his calling for the duration of the war. Three years later, he emerged as the war's "most unlikely hero," a living symbol of American democratic ideals of sharing and brotherhood. Brilliantly researched and beautifully written, The Better Angel explores a side of Whitman not fully examined before, one that greatly enriches our understanding of his later poetry. Moreover, it gives us a vivid and unforgettable portrait of the "other army"--the legions of sick and wounded soldiers who are usually left in the shadowy background of Civil War history--seen here through the unflinching eyes of America's greatest poet.
The Better Angels Of Our Nature
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Author : John William Turner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Better Angels Of Our Nature written by John William Turner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with categories.
The Better Angels Of Our Nature
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Author : Phillip Shaw Paludan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Better Angels Of Our Nature written by Phillip Shaw Paludan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Public opinion categories.