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Author Masur, Louis P.

Title Lincoln's last speech : wartime reconstruction and the crisis of reunion / Louis P. Masur.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.8 MASUR    Check Shelf
Description xv, 247 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-225) and index.
Contents Prologue: "Gladness of heart" -- "A large share of thought from the first" -- "Proper, practical relation" -- "A pernicious abstraction" -- "A plan of re-construction" -- "We, the loyal people, differ" -- "Fraught with difficulty" -- "A righteous and speedy peace" -- "The egg is to the fowl" -- Afterword: "the present 'situation'" -- Appendix: text of Lincoln's last speech, April 22, 1865.
Subject Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Views on reconstruction.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
ISBN 9780190218393
0190218398
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