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ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HIS ANCESTORS
FROM COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS TO THE WHITE HOUSE |
| By: |
Kenneth J. Winkle, Ida M. Tarbell |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0803294301 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780803294301 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 April, 1997 |
| Pages: |
434 |
| Description: |
Young Samuel Lincoln, who had been apprenticed as a weaver in England, arrived in the Puritan colony of Boston Bay in 1637. This book traces the generations from Samuel to Abraham Lincoln, offering details of character and circumstance and showing that the president's ancestors were not precisely as his detractors painted them. |
| Synopsis: |
'I found it an inspiring thing to trace the roads these seven successive generations of Lincoln pioneers traveled, to look upon the remains of their homes, reconstruct from documents and legends their activities, judge what manner of men and women they were, the place they held among their fellows. In these wanderings the whole history of the United States seemed to unroll before me. In this Lincoln migration we have the family history of millions of our contemporaries' - Ida M. Tarbell, in her preface.Young Samuel Lincoln, who had been apprenticed as a weaver in England, arrived in the Puritan colony of Boston Bay in 1637. Ida M. Tarbell traces the generations from Samuel to Abraham Lincoln, offering rich details of character and circumstance and showing that the president's ancestors were not precisely as his detractors painted them. She takes Abraham Lincoln from the cabin of his birth to the White House, where he is introduced to a nation in crisis. Ida M. Tarbell is remembered for her muckraking journalism and her expose of the Standard Oil Company. Kenneth J.Winkle is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and author of "The Politics of Community: Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio". |
| Illustrations: |
Illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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