Lincoln's White House is the first book devoted to capturing the look, feel, and smell of the executive mansion from Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 to his assassination in 1865.
Lincoln's White House is the first book devoted to capturing the look, feel, and smell of the executive mansion from Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 to his assassination in 1865.
James Conroy, a trial lawyer in Boston for over thirty years, is the author of Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865 (Lyons Press, 2014). He resides on Boston's South Shore.
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Author's Note and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Painful Sense of Becoming Educated 2 A Strange Mixture of Enthusiasm and Greed 3 Plain and Simple in Its Appointments 4 A Miscellaneous Assortment of Life and Character 5 The White House Is Turned into Barracks 6 It Is Good to Look at Beauty Once in a While 7 Ink Stained and Work Worn 8 The Republican Queen in Her White Palace 9 This Is a God-Forsaken Hole 10 This Damned Old House 11 My Public Opinion Baths 12 Bright Jewels and Bright Eyes 13 Not an American Crime 14 Bundles and Bales 15 Like So Many Greenhead Flies 16 Crazy and Poetry 17 I Happen Temporarily to Occupy This Big White House 18 And Everything Seemed to Weep Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
Author's Note and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Painful Sense of Becoming Educated 2 A Strange Mixture of Enthusiasm and Greed 3 Plain and Simple in Its Appointments 4 A Miscellaneous Assortment of Life and Character 5 The White House Is Turned into Barracks 6 It Is Good to Look at Beauty Once in a While 7 Ink Stained and Work Worn 8 The Republican Queen in Her White Palace 9 This Is a God-Forsaken Hole 10 This Damned Old House 11 My Public Opinion Baths 12 Bright Jewels and Bright Eyes 13 Not an American Crime 14 Bundles and Bales 15 Like So Many Greenhead Flies 16 Crazy and Poetry 17 I Happen Temporarily to Occupy This Big White House 18 And Everything Seemed to Weep Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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