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Abraham Lincoln


Born
in Sinking spring farm, Kentucky, The United States
February 12, 1809

Died
April 15, 1865

Genre
Memoir, Politics

Influences
Robert Burns, Henry Clay ...more


Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States from 1861 and led the country during the Civil War.

Lincoln, a moderate, navigated a contentious array of factions with friends and opponents from the Democratic Party and Republican Party. He exploited mutual enmity of the factions, carefully distributing political patronage, and appealed to the American people.

Lincoln closely supervised the strategy and tactics in the war effort, including the selection of generals, and implemented a naval blockade of the trade. He suspended habeas corpus in Maryland and elsewhere, and averted British intervention by defusing the Trent Affair. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared free all enslaved persons in states "in reb ...more

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Average rating: 4.35 · 17,897 ratings · 1,087 reviews · 2,558 distinct works • Similar authors
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The Wit and Wisdom of Abrah...
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Emancipation Proclamation
4.44 avg rating — 777 ratings — published 1863 — 22 editions
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Speeches and Writings 1859–...
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4.43 avg rating — 739 ratings — published 1989 — 29 editions
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
4.15 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1899 — 178 editions
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Selected Speeches and Writings
4.22 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 1992 — 17 editions
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Great Speeches / Abraham Li...
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Writings of Abraham Lincoln
4.13 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 1953 — 75 editions
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Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin have the same birthday. Whose birthday party would you rather attend?

 
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