Black Heavens - Abraham Lincoln and Death Dirck Brian R.Pevná vazba
Winner, Lincoln Group of New York Award of Achievement 2019From multiple personal tragedies to the terrible carnage of the Civil War, death might be alongside emancipation of the slaves and…
Specifikacia Black Heavens - Abraham Lincoln and Death Dirck Brian R.Pevná vazba
Winner, Lincoln Group of New York Award of Achievement 2019From multiple personal tragedies to the terrible carnage of the Civil War, death might be alongside emancipation of the slaves and restoration of the Union as one of the great central truths of Abraham Lincoln's life. Yet what little has been written specifically about Lincoln and death is insufficient, sentimentalized, or devoid of the rich historical literature about death and mourning during the nineteenth century. The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death is the first in-depth account of how the sixteenth president responded to the riddles of mortality, undertook personal mourning, and coped with the extraordinary burden of sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers to be killed on battlefields.Going beyond the characterization of Lincoln as a melancholy, tragic figure, Brian R. Dirck