The Lincoln Mailbag

The Lincoln Mailbag
Author: Harold Holzer
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2006-01-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0809388103


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As president, Abraham Lincoln received between two hundred and five hundred letters a day—correspondence from public officials, political allies, and military leaders, as well as letters from ordinary Americans of all races who wanted to share their views with him. Here, and in his critically acclaimed volume Dear Mr. Lincoln, editor Harold Holzer has rescued these voices—sometimes eloquent, occasionally angry, at times poetic—from the obscurity of the archives of the Civil War. The Lincoln Mailbag includes letters written by African Americans, which Lincoln never saw, revealing to readers a more accurate representation of the nation’s mood than even the president knew. This first paperback edition of The Lincoln Mailbag includes a new index and fourteen illustrations, and Holzer’s introduction and annotations provide historical context for the events described and the people who wrote so passionately to their president in Lincoln's America.


The Lincoln Mailbag
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Harold Holzer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-05 - Publisher: SIU Press

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As president, Abraham Lincoln received between two hundred and five hundred letters a day—correspondence from public officials, political allies, and military
The Lincoln Mailbag
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Harold Holzer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-05 - Publisher: SIU Press

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As president, Abraham Lincoln received between two hundred and five hundred letters a day—correspondence from public officials, political allies, and military
The Lincoln Family Album
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: Mark E. Neely
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Doubleday Books

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120 photographs from the vast, hitherto unknown, and revealing archive of the private Lincolns are published for the first time in this volume.
Lincoln Seen and Heard
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Harold Holzer
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher:

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"Holzer also takes a closer look at Lincoln's oratory, the words of a man often ridiculed for his homespun manner of speaking. He shows how Lincoln's choice of
Dear Mr. Lincoln
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Holzer, Harold
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: SIU Press

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This first compilation of letters received by President Lincoln shows a president who was eager to review and respond to the people's advice and criticism, thei