Stahr, Walter
Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STANTON, EDWIN StaBowman, Donna Janell
Summary: As a young lawyer, Abraham Lincoln was known for his sense of humor. But in 1842, he did something so rascally--so downright mean--he was challenged to a duel. Lincoln needed his wit and a healthy dose of humility to save his life and his career. He didn't know it at the time, but the future of this great country was at stake. Ultimately, what he referred to as the meanest thing he had ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 BOWAbrams, Dan
Summary: At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer. The case posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The murder victim had trained for the law in his office, and Lincoln had been his friend and his mentor. His accused killer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.7 ABRGreenberg, Amy S.
Summary: At the same time as the Woman's Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was wielding influence unprecedented for a woman. Yet, while history remembers the women of the convention, it has all but forgotten Sarah Polk. Now, Amy Greenberg brings her story into vivid focus. We see her father raising her on the frontier to discuss politics and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 POLK, SARAH GREKilmeade, Brian
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.5 KILBrockenbrough, Martha
Summary: "He was born out of wedlock on a small island in the West Indies and orphaned as a teenager. From those inauspicious circumstances, he rose to a position of power and influence in colonial America. Discover this founding father's incredible true story: his brilliant scholarship and military career; his groundbreaking and enduring policy, which shapes American government today; his salacious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER BROEisenhower, John S. D.
Summary: Eisenhower offers a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as "the first modern general." Yet behind his reputation as a fierce warrior was a sympathetic man of complex character.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SHERMAN, WILLIAM T EISShelden, Michael.
Summary: Drawing heavily on Twain's own letters and journals, Shelden illuminates Mark Twain's twilight years in this account of the legendary author's life, recounting both Twain's private family experiences and his larger-than-life public image.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 TWAIN, MARK SheBaird, Julia (Julia Woodlands)
Summary: A magnificent biography of Queen Victoria by International New York Times columnist Julia Baird. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, 'Victoria: The Queen' is a stunning new portrait of the real woman behind the myth - a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience. When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 VICTORIA, QUEEN BAIGessner, David
Summary: Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists--from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches--braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West. What is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 978 GESChernow, Ron
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GRANT, ULYSSES S. CHEKotkin, Stephen
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. As the shadows of the 30's deepen, Stalin's drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition of Nazi Germany becomes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STALIN, JOSEPH KOTKotkin, Stephen
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. As the shadows of the 30's deepen, Stalin's drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition of Nazi Germany becomes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017