Mobi Sixteenth President-in-Waiting: Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield Dispatches of Henry Villard, 1860–1861 with Free MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Best Edition Sixteenth President-in-Waiting: Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield Dispatches of Henry Villard, 1860–1861 with FREE MOBI EDITION Download Now!

 5

Related Ebook :

Download Mobi Anne and Louis Forever Bound (Anne of Brittany Series Book 4) with FREE PDF EDITION Download Now!

Download PDF No One Is Perfect: The True Story Of Candace Mossler And America's Strangest Murder Trial with FREE MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Download Audio Book Red Blanket: An uncensored memoir that reveals the underbelly of surgical training with FREE EASY Reading Download Now!

Download Mobi American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America to Victory in World War II with Free PDF EDITION Download Now!

Download Special Edition Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood with Free MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Download Special Edition President Carter: The White House Years with Free EASY Reading Download Now!

Download Audio Book Committed: A Love Story with Free PDF EDITION Download Now!

Download PDF Goodbye Helter Skelter: A New Look at the Tate-LaBianca Murders with FREE EASY Reading Download Now!

Download Mobi Harriet Beecher Stowe's Biography of Abraham Lincoln with Free PDF EDITION Download Now!

Download Audio Book There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir with Free PDF EDITION Download Now!

Best Edition Sixteenth President-in-Waiting: Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield Dispatches of Henry Villard, 1860–1861 with FREE MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Winner, ISHS Best of Illinois History Award, 2019Between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and his departure for Washington three months later, journalist Henry Villard sent scores of dispatches from Springfield, Illinois, to various newspapers describing the president-elect’s doings, quoting or paraphrasing his statements, chronicling events in the Illinois capital, and analyzing the city’s mood. With Sixteenth President-in-Waiting Michael Burlingame has collected all of these dispatches in one insightful and informative volume. Best known as a successful nineteenth-century railroad promoter and financier, German-born Henry Villard (1835–1900) was also among the most conscientious and able journalists of the 1860s. The dispatches gathered in this volume constitute the most intensive journalistic coverage that Lincoln ever received, for Villard filed stories from the Illinois capital almost daily to the New York Herald, slightly less often to the Cincinnati Commercial, and occasionally to the San Francisco Bulletin. Lincoln welcomed Villard and encouraged him to ask questions, as he was the only full-time correspondent for out-of-town papers. He spoke with inside sources, such as Lincoln’s private secretaries John G. Nicolay and John Hay, devoted friends like Jesse K. Dubois and Stephen T. Logan, political leaders like Governor Richard Yates, and journalists like William M. Springer and Robert R. Hitt. Villard boasted that he did Lincoln a service by scaring off would-be office seekers who, fearing to see their names published in newspapers, gave up plans to visit the Illinois capital to badger the president-elect. Villard may have done an even greater service by publicizing Lincoln’s views on the secession crisis. His little-known coverage of the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Senate race, translated from the German for the first time, is included as an appendix. At the time Villard was an ardent Douglas supporter, and his reports criticized Lincoln.Not only informative but also highly readable, Villard’s vivid descriptions of Lincoln’s appearance, daily routine, and visitors, combined with fresh information about Springfielders, state political leaders, and the capital, constitute an invaluable resource. 

At this time of writing, The Mobi Sixteenth President-in-Waiting: Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield Dispatches of Henry Villard, 1860–1861 has garnered 10 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Mobi is Good TO READ!

Best Edition Sixteenth President-in-Waiting: Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield Dispatches of Henry Villard, 1860–1861 with FREE MOBI EDITION!

A specialized book that adds to our knowledge of the political atmosphere of the time after Lincoln's election but before he traveled by rail to Washington, D.C., to undertake his new duties as president. It is especially good at reminding us of the intense infighting over future cabinet appointment, such as involving Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, as well as the dense swarm that descended on Springfield of seekers for lesser office.Michael Burlingame is today's most knowledgeable person on Lincoln (in my opinion), so his compilation and editing of the young Henry Villard's news dispatches are especially valuable. The appendix on Villard's reporting of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 is an added bonus.This is not a comprehensive history of this period and, likely, will not be of great interest is to the ordinary reader. One seeking a broader history of this time between election and swearing-in might well enjoy Harold Holzer's "Lincoln:President-Elect" published in 2008.

Related Ebook :

Download PDF I'll Be There For You: The One about Friends with Free MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Download PDF The Beatles - The House That Jack Built: (Untold) with Free EASY Reading Download Now!

Download PDF Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman with FREE EASY Reading Download Now!

Download Special Edition Counterpunch: A Woman's Journey from the Terror of Violence through Rage to Survival... with FREE EASY Reading Download Now!

Download PDF Café Wars: A War Novel (The Airmen Series Book 4) with Free MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Download Best Edition Washington: The Indispensable Man with FREE EASY Reading Download Now!

Download Best Edition The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street with FREE MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Download Audio Book Naturally Tan: A Memoir with FREE EASY Reading Download Now!

Download Mobi FDR with Free MOBI EDITION Download Now!

Download Audio Book The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table with Free EASY Reading Download Now!