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From the Publisher: America's greatest president, who rose to power in the country's greatest hour of need and whose vision saw the United States through the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president-the icon of greatness, the pillar of strength whose w... Full description
- Editor's note
- Prologue: Greatness of Lincoln
- 1: Humble beginnings
- 2: Making of a statesman
- 3: Lincoln and the union
- 4: Lincoln and the emancipation
- 5: Lincoln and total war
- 6: Politics in wartime
- 7: Rising above the fray: second term
- 8: Victory and death
- Epilogue: Nation Lincoln made
- Notes
- Milestones
- Selected bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index.