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House of Abraham by Stephen Berry (2009, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100547085699

ISBN-139780547085692

eBay Product ID (ePID)66981036

Product Key Features

Book TitleHouse of Abraham

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / State & Local / General, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Presidents & Heads of State, Political, Historical

Publication Year2009

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorStephen Berry

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight8.5 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2009-293224

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"A riveting account of the Todds, a family divided by war, a Tolstoyan family unhappy in its own way. By approaching the Civil War through the history of one family, Stephen Berry compels us to see this epochal conflict anew. "House of Abraham" is absolutely first-rate."

Dewey Decimal973.7092/2 B

SynopsisFor all the talk of the Civil War's pitting brother against brother, no book has told fully the story of one family ravaged by that conflict. And no family better illustrates the personal toll the war took than Lincoln's own. Mary Todd Lincoln was one of fourteen siblings who were split between the Confederacy and the Union. Three of her brothers fought, and two died, for the South. Several Todds -- including Mary herself -- bedeviled Lincoln's administration with their scandalous behavior. Their struggles haunted the president and moved him to avoid tactics or rhetoric that would dehumanize or scapegoat the Confederates. By drawing on his own familial experience, Lincoln was able to articulate a humanistic, even charitable view of the enemy that seems surpassingly wise in our time, let alone his. In House of Abraham, the award-winning historian Stephen Berry fills a gap in Civil War history, showing how the war changed one family and how that family changed the course of the war.

LC Classification NumberE457.25.B47 2009