Автор: Brewster Todd Название: Lincoln`s Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months That Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War ISBN: 1451693893 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781451693898 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 17620.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A masterful psychological portrait (George Stephanopoulos) of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincoln s presidency, when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War. On July 12, 1862, Abraham Lincoln spoke for the first time of his intention to free the slaves. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, doing precisely that. In between, however, was a tumultuous six months, an episode during which the sixteenth president fought bitterly with his generals, disappointed his cabinet, and sank into painful bouts of clinical depression. Most surprising, the man who would be remembered as The Great Emancipator did not hold firm to his belief in emancipation. He agonized over the decision and was wracked by private doubts almost to the moment when he inked the decree that would change a nation. It was a great gamble, with the future of the Union, of slavery, and of the presidency itself hanging in the balance. In this compelling narrative, Todd Brewster focuses on this crucial time period to ask: was it through will or by accident, intention or coincidence, personal achievement or historical determinism that he freed the slaves? Brewster brings elegant clarity to the tangle of conflicting ideologies, loyalties, and practicalities that pushed the proclamation forward ("Publishers Weekly"), portraying the president as an imperfect man with an unshakable determination to save a country he believed in, even as the course of the Civil War remained unknown."
Автор: Chamberlin Brewster Название: Almost to the End: The Shorter Poems: New and Old ISBN: 0692673474 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692673478 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 20190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Brewster Paul Название: The Principles of Life in the Spirit ISBN: 0993514766 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780993514760 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 18910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Brewster Hugh Название: Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic`s First-Class Passengers and Their World ISBN: 0307984818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307984814 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 9810.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The Titanic has often been called "An exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian era, but until now, her story has not been presented as such. In "Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage," historian Hugh Brewster seamlessly interweaves personal narratives of the lost liner s most fascinating people with a haunting account of the fateful maiden crossing. Employing scrupulous research and featuring 100 rarely seen photographs, he accurately depicts the ship s brief life and tragic denouement and presents compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers: millionaires John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim; President Taft's closest aide, Major Archibald Butt;writer Helen Churchill Candee; the artist Frank Millet;movie actress Dorothy Gibson; the celebrated couturiere Lady Duff Gordon;aristocrat Noelle, the Countess of Rothes; and a host of other travelers. Through them, we gain insight into the arts, politics, culture, and sexual mores of a world both distant and near to our own. And with them, we gather on the "Titanic" s sloping deck on that cold, starlit night and observe their all-too-human reactions as the disaster unfolds. More than ever, we ask ourselves, What would "we" have done? "
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