Every drop of blood: the momentous second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
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"By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. That day, after a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington's Capitol grounds to see Abraham Lincoln take theoath for a second term. As the sun emerged, Lincoln rose to give perhaps the greatest inaugural address in American history, stunning the nation by arguing, in a brief 701 words, that both sides had been wrong, and that the war's unimaginable horrors-every drop of blood spilled-might well have been God's just verdict on the national sin of slavery. Edward Achorn reveals the nation's capital on that momentous day-with its mud, sewage, and saloons, its prostitutes, spies, reporters, social-climbing spouses, and power-hungry politicians-as a microcosm of all the opposing forces that had driven the country apart. Achorn weaves together the stories of the host of characters, unknown and famous, that had converged on Washington-from grievously wounded Union colonel Selden Connor in a Washington hospital, embarrassingly drunk new vice president Andrew Johnson, and poet-journalist Walt Whitman, to soldiers' advocate Clara Barton, African American leader Frederick Douglass (who called the speech "a sacred effort"), and conflicted actor John Wilkes Booth-all swirling around the complex figure of Lincoln. In indelible scenes, Achorn vividly captures the frenzy in the nation's capital at this crucial moment in America's history and the tension-filled hope and despair afflicting the country as a whole, soon to be heightened by Lincoln's assassination. His story offers new understanding of our great national crisis, and echoes down the decades to resonate in our own time"--
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Achorn, E. (2020). Every drop of blood: the momentous second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Achorn, Edward. 2020. Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Achorn, Edward, Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Achorn, Edward. Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020.
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250 | |a First edition. | ||
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300 | |a xxxvi, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm | ||
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505 | 0 | |a Bloody Gashes on the Face of Heaven -- One and a Half Times Bigger -- A Message from Grant -- The Real Precious and Royal Ones -- Meditation on the Divine Will -- Public Sentiment Is Everything -- Indefinable Fascination -- The Blighting Pestilence -- There Was Murder in the Air -- A Future with Hope in It -- Andy Ain't a Drunkard -- An Excellent Chance to Kill the President -- With Malice toward None -- A Truth That Needed to Be Told -- A Sacred Effort -- Epilogue: The Stuff to Carry Them Through. | |
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