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050	0	0	_aE 457.4 .H69 2008
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100	1		_aHolzer, Harold.
245	1	0	_aLincoln president-elect : _bAbraham Lincoln and the great secession winter 1860-1861 / _cHarold Holzer.
250			_a1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
260			_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2008.
300			_ax, 623, [16] pages of plates : _billustrations, portraits ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 493-595) and index.
505	0		_aThe government is about to fall into our hands -- My troubles have just commenced -- We won't jump that ditch -- A masterly inactivity -- The tug has to come -- Very much like the critter -- If we surrender, it is the end of us -- Will you hazard so desperate a step? -- With a task before me -- No occasion for any excitement -- I would rather be assassinated -- Plain as a turnpike road -- The ultimate justice of the people -- Epilogue : Mystic chords of memory -- What became of ...?
520	0		_aAbraham Lincoln first demonstrated his determination and leadership in the Great Secession Winter -- the four months between his election in November 1860 and his inauguration in March 1861 -- when he rejected compromises urged on him by Republicans and Democrats, Northerners and Southerners, that might have preserved the Union a little longer but would have enshrined slavery for generations. Though Lincoln has been criticized by many historians for failing to appreciate the severity of the secession crisis that greeted his victory, Harold Holzer shows that the president-elect waged a shrewd and complex campaign to prevent the expansion of slavery while vainly trying to limit secession to a few Deep South states. During this most dangerous White House transition in American history, the country had two presidents: one powerless (the president-elect, possessing no constitutional authority), the other paralyzed (the incumbent who refused to act). Through limited, brilliantly timed and crafted public statements, determined private letters, tough political pressure, and personal persuasion, Lincoln guaranteed the integrity of the American political process of majority rule, sounded the death knell of slavery, and transformed not only his own image but that of the presidency, even while making inevitable the war that would be necessary to make these achievements permanent. Lincoln President-Elect is the first book to concentrate on Lincoln's public stance and private agony during these months and on the momentous consequences when he first demonstrated his determination and leadership. Holzer recasts Lincoln from an isolated prairie politician yet to establish his greatness, to a skillful shaper of men and opinion and an immovable friend of freedom at a decisive moment when allegiance to the founding credo "all men are created equal" might well have been sacrificed.
600	1	0	_aLincoln, Abraham, _d1809-1865.
600	1	0	_aLincoln, Abraham, _d1809-1865 _xPolitical career before 1861.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1857-1861.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yCivil War, 1861-1865 _xCauses.
650		0	_aPresidents _xElection.
650		0	_aPresidents _xTransition periods.
600	1	7	_aLincoln, Abraham. _2idsbb
600	1	7	_aLincoln, Abraham. _2idszbz
650		7	_aSezessionskrieg _xVorgeschichte. _2idsbb
650		7	_aSezessionskrieg (1861-1865) _2idszbz
600	1	7	_aLincoln, Abraham. _2swd
600	1	7	_aLincoln, Abraham, _d1809-1865. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00030184
611	2	7	_aAmerican Civil War (1861-1865) _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01351658
650		7	_aAbraham Lincoln's political career before 1861. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01351608
650		7	_aPolitical science. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01069781
650		7	_aPresidents _xElection. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01075747
650		7	_aPresidents _xTransition periods. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01075823
650		7	_aWar _xCauses. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01170331
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
648		7	_a1857 - 1865 _2fast
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aHolzer, Harold. _tLincoln president-elect. _b1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. _dNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2008 _w(OCoLC)680591953
856	4	1	_3Sample text _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2008021520-s.html
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2008021520-t.html
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0901/2008021520-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2008021520-d.html
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