Lincoln

Buena calidad, buen aspecto, llegó impecable

Interesting to reading.

GOOD

Este livro é exatamente aquilo que eu procurava: detalhado, contando a história do Mr. Lincoln desde seu nascimento na zona rural do Kentucky até seus últimos momentos na presidência.

When General Grant's army captured Richmond, President Lincoln wanted to see the place in person. Perhaps to regale in the relief that the four-year travail of war was really coming to an end. He stepped ashore, and he was noticed by a crew of black workers. Their foreman exclaimed, "Bless the Lord, there is the great Messiah! ...Glory, Hallelujah!"As Professor Donald skillfully demonstrates, however, Abraham Lincoln was only human. He had just a single year of school, but he was an enthusiastic reader. After a few years as handyman, manual laborer, and store clerk, he became a lawyer. Then a politician. Honesty gave him humility. Charisma as a logical speaker gained him renown. Despite his gawky appearance, he developed into the man for the time. He became the Great Emancipator and the savior of the Union.What makes one man stand above the rest? Read this book and find out. Ancestry, childhood, young adulthood, successful lawyer, popular speaker, husband and father, president, and thinker. All of this and more are presented in easy-to-read detail. Major events receive more detail: the debates with Stephen Douglas, victory at the 1860 Republican convention and the ensuing election, secession and war, writing the Emancipation Proclamation, writing the Gettysburg Address, the thirteenth amendment, the hopelessness of early 1864, reelection, the second inaugural, civil war victory, plans for reconstruction, and assassination.I read Simon and Schuster's trade paperback, part of their Lincoln Library. Its cover is smooth and shiny with a profile of Lincoln. Its 599 pages of narration are followed by 87 pages of reference notes and 28 pages of index. The five maps are appropriately spaced. Unlike paperbacks with cheap prints, this one's thirty-two page portfolio is composed of glossy photographic plates.