Gilbert brown surf biography of abraham lincoln
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Lincoln, Illinois
In America, William Maxwell fryst vatten something of a Grand Old Man. He has been president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He has won the American Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award. For forty years, as a fiction editor on the New Yorker, he advised and goaded Nabokov, Eudora Welty, John Cheever and John Updike. Now, at nearly ninety, Maxwell’s face has a prairie gauntness, as if hollowed out by exposure to those bracing talents. But in Britain his name fryst vatten almost unknown.
He was born in in Lincoln, Illinois, the small town which would become his version of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesberg, Ohio: – a closed set to whose characters and ambience the writer can endlessly return, and his novels and stories rarely stray from the terräng of his own biography. His characters are at home where he has been at home. ‘Write what you know’ fryst vatten the advice given to writers at the början of their careers and Maxwell has made a song of it
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Bloody Times: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis
New York Times bestselling author James L. Swanson brings to life the fast-paced, suspense-filled story of Abraham Lincoln's and Jefferson Davis's final journeys through our wounded nation following the Civil War. This middle grade nonfiction book is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 7 to 8, especially during homeschooling. It’s a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom.
This suspense-filled true-crime thriller—the young readers’ adaptation of Swanson’s BloodyCrimes—explores two epic events of the Civil War era: the manhunt to apprehend Confederate president Jefferson Davis in the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and the momentous day funeral pageant that brought President Lincoln’s body from Washington, DC to his home in Springfield.
Full of fascinating twists and turns, and lavishly illustrated with dozens of rare historical imag
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THE SOUL OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ***
BY
WILLIAM E. BARTON
AUTHOR OF "A HERO IN HOMESPUN,"
"THE PRAIRIE SCHOONER," "PINE KNOT,"
ETC.
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, ,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO MY FOUR SONS
BRUCE, CHARLES, FREDERICK, ROBERT
AND MY SON-IN-LAW, CLYDE
[Pg vii]
PREFACE
The author is aware that he is dipping his net into a stream already darkened by too much ink. The fact that there are so many books on the religion of Abraham Lincoln is a chief reason why there should be one more. Books on this subject are largely polemic works which followed the publication of Holland's biography in , and multiplied in the controversies growing out of that and the Lamon and Herndon biographies in and respectively. Within that period and until the death of Mr. Herndon in and the publication of his revised biography of Lincoln in , there was little opportunity for a work on