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For the very first time ever, the personal thoughts and politics decisions of Abraham Lincoln's whole presidency - daily. Within a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly specific day-by-day break down of president Abraham Lincoln's decisions in office - including his signing of the Homestead Act on, may 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal tax on August 5, 1861; and much more personal incidents like the day his 11-year-old child, Willie, died. Exposed are Lincoln's private frustrations on Sept 28, 1862, as he published to vice president Hannibal Hamlin, "The North responds to the [Emancipation] proclamation sufficiently with breathing; but breath only kills no rebels." 366 Times in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency includes interesting facts like how Lincoln hated to hunt but cherished to fire weapons nearby the unfinished Washington monument, how he was the one president to own a patent, and exactly how he recited Scottish poetry to alleviate stress. As Scottish historian Hugh Blair said, "It really is from private life, from familiar, local, and seemingly trivial occurrences, that people frequently receive light in to the real persona." Covering 366 nonconsecutive days (including a leap day) of Lincoln's presidency, this is a rich, exciting new perspective of our most well-known president. This is a must-have release for any historian, military history or civil conflict buff, or listener of biographies.
