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(Steamboat owner) Hurd, John Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Company (1948- ) Effie Afton (Steamboat) Liability for railroad accidents United States Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Maryland Baltimore Railroad bridges United States Shipwrecks Law and legislation United States Trials Illinois Chicago United StatesLarson, Erik
Summary: On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2024
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Summary: "Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier, in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration. The conspirators were part of a pro-Southern secret society that didn't want an antislavery president in the White House. They planned an elaborate scheme to assassinate...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Before becoming president, Abraham Lincoln successfully argued a trial pitting railroad vs. steamboat. In the course of this untold story, listeners follow the creation of a transnational railroad while witnessing the future president's ascension to the national stage.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015