Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, Lincoln turned to the great men of the founding Washington, Paine, Jefferson and their great documents the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution for knowledge, guidance, inspiration, and purpose. Out of the power vacuum created by their passing, Lincoln emerged from among his peers as the true

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draws on his own transcripts of almost a thousand conversations

grand tours of foreign capitals and post-season promotional tours

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the book invites us to consider how houses

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When the prompter falls dead during the second act of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre during a matinee performance at the Metropolitan Opera

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The Waldseemuller Map was created with original woodcut spanning across 12 sheets of paper

His plates are of buds that propagated the cherry trees that first arrived in 1912

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