A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (Dodo Press) by John George Nicolay (9781406540475)
John George Nicolay Release Date: 01 August 2007 Format: Paperback Pages: 420 Category: Political Publisher: Dodo Press ISBN: 9781406540475 ISBN-10: 1406540471
Condensed version of Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History, the popular biography, first published in 1902. Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States, March 4, 1861 to April 15, 1865. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery and a political leader in the western states, he won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his term, he helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865.