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• Abraham Lincoln: 16th President of the United States, 1861-1865.
• William Henry Seward: Lincoln-appointed United States Secretary of State, 1861-1869; defeated by Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election.
• Edwin M. Stanton: United States Attorney General, 1860-1861, United States Secretary of War, 1862-1868
• Thomas Fleming Bates: Lincoln-appointed United States Attorney General, 1861-1864; defeated by Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election.
• Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln-appointed United States Secretary of the Treasury, 1861-1864, Chief Justice of the United States, 1864-1873; defeated by Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election.
• Mary Lincoln: The extremely poised and well-educated wife of Mr. Lincoln.
• George B. McClellan: Commander of the Army of the Potomac from 1861-1862. Later opposed Lincoln as the Democratic nominee for President in 1864.
• Robert Todd Lincoln: Eldest son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, he later became Secretary of War under James Garfield, and Ambassador to the UK under Benjamin Harrison.
• Willie Lincoln: Middle son of Mary and Abraham Lincoln; died of typhoid fever in 1862.
• Tad Lincoln: Youngest son of Mary and Abraham Lincoln.
• Kate Chase: Daughter of Salmon Chase, Kate was an attractive and much-admired society woman in Washington DC and she served as a life-long companion to her father.
• Judge Edward Bates: 2nd son of Mary and Abraham Lincoln; died at the age of 4.
• James Briggs: Major for the Union army
• George Templeton Strong: Lawyer and diarist who wrote quite a bit during the Civil War
• Julia Coalter: Wife of Edward Bates
• William Rosecrans: Union general defeated badly at the Battle of Chickamauga
• Abner Doubleday: Union general who defended Fort Sumter and helped win at Gettysburg
• Ulysses S. Grant: The father of the modern, American way to fight and win a war.
• Charles Sumner: Massachusetts senator who was a strong abolitionist
• Mary Jane Welles: Gideon Welles' wife who sat with Tad Lincoln during his illness
• David Porter: Admiral who helped to shape the navy and commanded for the Union during the Civil War
• James Russell Lowell: American romantic poet
• John Calhoun: Senator from South Carolina who championed slavery and states' rights
• Jessie Frémont: Writer and opponent of slavery
• Stephen A. Douglas: Lincoln's rival in the 1860 election and once a suitor of Mary Todd Lincoln
• Judge Elijah Miller: Father of Francis Miller who would one day marry a young man in his firm, William Seward
• Cara Kasson: Reporter for the Iowa State Register and the Assistant Post-Master General's wife
• Dr. Norton Townshend: Delegate to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention and medical inspector for the Union during the Civil War
• Andrew Jackson: 7th President of the United States who used his credentials from war to boost himself in elections
• Judge David Davis: Lawyer, politician, and Lincoln's campaign manager in 1860 and later a Supreme Court Justice
• Elizabeth Keckley: Former slave who became a dressmaker and made dresses for many in Washington, D. C. including Mary Lincoln with whom she became good friends
• Christopher Wolcott: Ohio politician who became Assistant Secretary of War during the Civil War
• David Tod: Democrat from Ohio who supported the war and tried to keep both parties working together
• Harriet Lane: James Buchanan's niece who acted as his First Lady
• Henry Wilson: Anti-slavery Republican who eventually became Grant's Vice President
• Horace White: Lawyer and politician from New York
• John Crittenden: Kentucky politician who urged for compromise in order to prevent war
• John McDonough: An actor who met with Lincoln and gained much respect for him
• Kenneth Stampp: Historian on slavery and the civil war
• Catherine Garniss: Chase's first wife who died of complications from childbirth
• Martha Todd White: Mary Todd Lincoln's sister
• Thomas Hart Benton: Know as 'Old Bullion' and an advocate of westward expansion
• Walter Scott: Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet
• James Harlan: Kentucky politician that was appointed U.S. Attorney for Kentuck by Lincoln
• Bud Taft: One of the Lincoln boys' playmates, brother to Halsey and Mary Nelson
• Alexander Stephens: Georgian who was Vice President of the Confederacy
• Mathew Brady: Photographer who documented the Civil War
• Francis Blair Senior: Supporter of Bates during his attempt to get the nomination to run for President
• Roger B. Taney: Supreme court justice who delivered the Dred Scott decision
• Lazette: Frances Seward's sister
• John Pemberton: Confederate veteran who invented Coca-Cola
• Albert Hart: Historian
• Henry Rathbone: Military officer who was sitting next to Lincoln when he was assassinated
• William Lloyd Garrison: Abolitionist who edited The Liberator
• John Greenleaf Whittier: Quaker poet and abolitionist
• John Gilmer: Representative from North Carolina
• George Ashmun: Helped to found the Republican Party
• Charlotte Cushman: American stage actress
• John Slidell: Politician who sided with the Confederacy and pled their case with France
• Henry Ward Beecher: Clergyman and abolitionist
• Henry Halleck: Union general known as 'Old Brains'
• Samuel Phillips Lee: Robert E. Lee's cousin who joined the Navy and fought for the Union
• John C. Breckinridge: Kentucky politician and former Vice President who went on to become the Confederacy's Secretary of War
• Nathaniel Banks: Governor of Massachusetts who went to become a general for the Union during the Civil War
• William Russell: Reporter for The Times in London
• Julia Grant: Wife of Ulysses S. Grant
• J. G. Johnson: Joseph Sterling's roommate with whom he informed Stanton of Lincoln's assassination
• Millard Fillmore: 13th President of the United States who signed the Fugitive Slave Act
• Joshua Speed: Close friend of Lincoln's and his one-time business partner
• Holly Taft: Julia Taft's little brother who was a playmate to Lincoln's children
• William Pitt Fessenden: Maine politician who became Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury
• Peter Watson: Representative lawyer from a Philadelphia firm who recruited Lincoln's help on the reaper case
• Robert Patterson: Failed Union general who was dismissed
• Charles Francis Adams: Colonel for the Union
• Lucy Stanton: Stanton's first daughter who died young
• Lucius Chittenden: Peace advocate who served as Register of the Treasury for Lincoln
• Jefferson Davis: President of the Confederacy during the Civil War
• John Usher: Lincoln's Secretary of the Interior
• Robert Burns: Scottish poet
• Judge Taft: Father of the Taft boys who played with Lincoln's younger sons
• Charles Drake: Member of the Missouri state constitutional committee
• William Rector: Brigadier general for the Confederacy noted for supply efforts for Confederate prisonsers of war
• Roscoe Conkling: New York politican belonging to the Republican Party
• Daniel Sickles: Union general and politician
• Nettie Colburn: Medium who Mary Lincoln consulted
• Godfrey Weitzel: Union general who occupied Richmond
• Julia Bates: Wife of Edward Bates
• Anna Seward: Married to Seward's son Frederick
• Jacob Thompson: Secretary of the Interior under James Buchanon
• Lord Lyons: British diplomat to the United States during the Civil War
• John Yates Beall: Confederate privateer who was arrested and executed
• Henry Whitney: Close friend and biographer of Lincoln's
• Robert Toombs: Confederate general who feuded with Jefferson Davis
• Thomas Fleming Bates: Edward Bates' father
• Simon Buckner: Confederate general who went on to govern Kentucky
• Gamaliel Bailey: Journalist and abolitionist
• William T. Sherman: Union general during the Civil War
• Judge John McLean: Dissenting judge on the Dred Scott decision
• Francis Capen: Meteorologist briefly used by the War Department
• Andrew Johnson: Lincoln's Vice President
• Albert Haller Tracy: A friend and early mentor of Seward's
• Nathan Knapp: Scott County delegate
• Rebecca Pomroy: Nurse chosen to take care of Tad while he was ill
• David Berdan: Writer friend of Seward's who died young from tuberculosis
• Stonewall Jackson: Prominent Confederate general killed by friendly fire
• Dr. Verdi: Doctor who administered to the Seward family the night of the attack
• Henry Bowen: Editor of the New York Independent anti-slavery paper
• Nettie Chase: Chase's youngest daughter
• James Garfield: Major general in the Union army and eventual President of the United States
• Stephen Hurlbut: South Carolina politician who joined the Union army and became commander of the Army of the Gulf
• Henry Villard: Journalist who covered the Civil War
• Louisa May Alcott: Abolitionist and noted author most famous for writing Little Women
• William Wirt: Attorney General under Monroe and Adams
• Judge Joseph Mills: Frances' father and a judge whom Seward worked for
• Alexis de Tocqueville: French political thinker and historian who wrote about democracy
• Winfield Scott: General who conceived the Anaconda Plan that was used to defeat the Confederacy
• Schuyler Colfax: Speaker of the House during the Civil War
• James Speed: Appointed as Attorney General by Lincoln
• John Pope: Union general defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run
• Henry S. Lane: Anti-slavery politician who wanted compromise with the south
• Elizabeth Wirt: Wife of William Wirt
• Matilda Edwards: A woman that Lincoln had an early crush on
• Edwin Stanton Jr.: Stanton's son
• John Wilkes Booth: Disgruntled actor and the assassin of Abraham Lincoln
• Jay Cooke: Financier who helped the Union finance the war
• Josiah Crawford: A farmer that lent Lincoln a book and who made him work more than he should have to repay a debt
• Mary Jane Welles: Gideon Welles' wife who sat with Tad while he was ill
• James Shields: Senator from three different states who almost fought a duel with Lincoln
• Robert McBride: A member of Lincoln's bodyguard
• Ellen Stanton: Wife of Edwin M. Stanton
• Dr. Anson Henry: A Lincoln family friend
• Elizabeth Blair: Wrote hundreds of letters about the Civil War to her husband
• Simon Cameron: Early Secretary of War for Lincoln and resigned amidst corruption accusations
• Thomas W. Sherman: Union general that commanded the Western Theater
• Henry Clay Cochrane: Marine who fought for the Union Army as a second lieutenant
• Gustavus Fox: Monty Blair's brother in law and former navy officer who developed a plan to relieve Fort Sumter
• Egbert Viele: Civil engineer and Union officer who resigned half way through the war
• William Crook: One of Lincoln's bodyguard present at his assassination
• John A. Dix: Major general for the Union
• William Dean Howells: Wrote an official biography of Lincoln in 1860
• John Stuart: Lincoln's law partner and one of Mary's favorite cousins
• Dorothea Dix: Advocate for the mentally ill who served as Superintendent of Army Nurses during the Civil War
• Murat Halstead: Newspaper editor who was a war correspondent
• Mary Ellen McClellan: Wife of General McClellan
• Horace Greeley: Newspaper editor who helped to found the Republican party and an opponent to slavery
• John A. Dahlgren: Father of American naval ordinance and admiral during the Civil War
• George Washington: First President of the United States
• Benjamin Butler: Lawyer and politician from Massachusetts who became a general for the Union
• David Donald: Lincoln biographer
• D. C. McCallum: Military Director and Superintendent of the Union railroads
• Leo Tolstoy: Russian author
• David Barton: One of the first senators from Missouri
• Joel Matteson: Governor of Illinois prior to the war
• William Smedes: Mississippi man that slandered Lincoln as justification for secession
• Horace Porter: Personal secretary during the war to Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman
• George Woodward: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice
• John Brown: Abolitionist famous for an attack on Harper's Ferry
• Reverdy Johnson: Democrat from Maryland who was against slavery and defended Mary Surrat in her trial
• John Adams: Second President of the United States
• Ira Harris: New York senator who was a friend of Lincoln's
• Thomas Pendel: White House doorkeeper who informed Robert that his father was shot
• Marquis de Chambrun: Party guest of Mary Lincoln's when Seward had his carriage accident
• Charles Cleveland: Lifelong friend of Chase's from school
• Franklin Pierce: 14th President of the United States who had southern sympathies
• John A. Campbell: Supreme Court Justice who resigned to serve as Assistant Secretary of War for the Confederacy
• Julia Taft: Visited the White House with her younger brothers as playmates to the Lincoln children
• Horatio Seymour: New York governor who lost the presidential election to Grant
• Charles Robinson: Union sailor who earned the Medal of Honor
• Irvin McDowell: Union general best known for his defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run
• Gustave Koerner: Took over some of Lincoln's cases once he was elected President
• Henry Adams: Descendant of the John and John Q. Adams who acted as a secretary when Lincoln appointed his father to a position with England
• George McDuffie: Governor of South Carolina who advocated states' rights
• George Meade: Union general best known for his victory at Gettysburg
• General Edward Ord: Instrumental in helping to defeat Robert E. Lee
• Elizabeth Abell: Mary Owens' sister and Lincoln's friend
• Joseph Hooker: Union general best known for his defeat at Chancellorsville
• Orville Browning: Republican senator from Illinois
• Benjamin Hardin Helm: Lincoln's brother in law and a Confederate general
• Samuel Morse: Helped invent the telegraph and Morse code
• John Wentworth: Newspaper editor, Chicago mayor, and representative that switched from Democrat to Republican
• Frances Trollope: Published an anti-slavery novel said to influence Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Lorenzo Thomas: Adjunct General of the Army during the war
• Samuel Hooper: Businessman and congressman from Massachusetts
• Ambrose E. Burnside: Union general defeated at the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Battle of Crater
• John Nicolay: Lincoln's private secretary
• Gustavus Fox: Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the war
• Carl Schurz: Brigadier general for the Union and the first German-born American elected to Congress
• William Gienapp: Studied the origins of the Republican Party
• John Eaton: Officer in the Union army
• William Dayton: Lincoln's minister of France
• Leonard Grover: Owner of a theater that the Lincolns frequented
• Ethan Allen: Hero from the Revolutionary War
• Preston Brooks: Advocate of slavery who beat Senator Sumner on the Senate floor with a cane
• Edward Baker: Close friend of Lincoln's for whom he named his son after
• Preston King: Senator from New York
• Therena Bates: Fiancee of John Nicolay
• James Polk: 11th President of the United States
• Nancy Hanks: Lincoln's mother who died of milk sickness
• Cassius M. Clay: Kentucky politician who fought to end slavery and worked on the Emancipation Proclamation as well as acted as ambassador to Russia
• James Mason: Virginia Senator who attempted to go to England to gain support for the Confederacy
• John Sherman: 'The Ohio Icicle' who was also the brother of General Sherman
• Fanny Seward: Daughter of Judge Elijah Miller and wife of William Seward
• Lyman Trumbull: Illinois senator and co-author of the 13th ammendment
• Detective Pinkerton: Head of the Union Intelligence Service and foiled an assassination plot on the President
• Isaac Arnold: Politician who introduced the first bill in Congress to abolish slavery
• Willard Saulsbury: Politician who was a large critic of Lincoln
• Owen Lovejoy: Politician and conductor on the underground railroad
• Rufus Easton: Politician from Missouri and its second attorney general
• Frederick Douglass: Orator and reformer and one of the leaders in abolition
• Emilie Helm: Mary's half sister who married Benjamin Helm
• Ward Lamon: Personal friend and self appointed body guard of Lincoln who was away the night of his assassination
• Francis Carpenter: Painter who painted Lincoln and published a memoir about his experience at the White House
• Norman Judd: Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Prussia for Lincoln
• Montgomery Meigs: Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army during the war
• John Hay: Private secretary and assistant to Lincoln
• George Thomas: Successful general for the Union
• William Stoddard: Assistant secretary to Lincoln
• Lew Wallace: Union general
• Thomas Jefferson: 3rd President of the United States
• Joseph Sterling: One of the clerks who informed Stanton of the President's shooting
• Joseph Johnston: Confederate general
• Noah Brooks: Journalist who wrote a major biography on Lincoln
• Charles Gibson: One of Bates' oldest friends in Missouri
• Albert Riddle: Ohio politician and consul at Cuba
• Benjamin French: Commissioner of Public Buildings who helped Mary Lincoln out with her budget issues
• Thomas Eckert: Chief of the War Department Telegraph Staff from 1862–1867, United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1865–1867
• Zachary Taylor: 12th President of the United States
• Mr. Frederick Seward: Assistant Secretry of the Navy
• Elihu Washburne: Played a prominent role in the early formation of the United States Republican Party
• Allan Nevins: Noted biography writer
• Alexander McClure: Historian and biographer of Lincoln
• Ben Wade: Lawyer and senator associated with the radical republicans
• James Buchanan: 15th President of the United States
• Napoleon: French emperor
• Thaddeus Stevens: Radical republican and fierce fighter for slave emancipation
• Hiram Barney: Collector of the Port of New York
• Pierre Beauregard: Confederate general who commanded the western armies
• George Julian: Politician, lawyer, and writer
• Andrew Foote: Union naval officer
• John J. Hardin: Helped avert a duel between Lincoln and James Shields
• Ralph Waldo Emerson: Writer and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement who spoke at Lincoln's memorial
• William Herndon: Law partner and biographer of Lincoln
• Theodore Tilton: Newspaper editor and abolitionist
• Robert E. Lee: Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia for the Confederates
• James McPherson: Union general killed in the Battle of Atlanta
• Sarah Lincoln: Lincoln's step mother
• John S. Rock: Abolitionist and one of the first African-Americans to earn a medical degree
• Tom Corwin: Lincoln's Minister to Mexico
• Thurlow Weed: Instrumental in the nomination of Lincoln
• Samuel R. Curtis: Brigadier General in the Union who bespoke of the issues that Fremont was causing
• Walt Whitman: Famous poet who memorialized Lincoln
• Wilmot Proviso: Proviso which would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future
• Stephen Vincent Benét: Author of John Brown's Body
• A. E. Johnson: Stanton's private secretary
• George Harrington: Early blackface performer
• Kate Sprague: Daughter of Salmon P. Chase who worked closely with her father after the deaths of his wives
• Edwin Morgan: Union army general and politician
• Ninian Edwards: Founding figure in Illinois
• Lewis Powell: Executed as a conspirator in Lincoln's murder
• Wendell Phillips: abolitionist and Native American advocate
• James M. Ashley: Congressman and territorial governor of Montana who was an abolitionist
• General John E. Wool: Union general who was the oldest on either side
• James Hackett: Actor who Lincoln watched play Falstaff
• Jenny Seward: Seward's daughter in law who married his son Will who lived with him in Washington
• Monty Blair: Lincoln's Post-Master General
• David Hunter: Union general who was the president of the military commission who tried the conspirators in Lincoln's assassination
• John M. Schofield: Union soldier who held various commands and achieved various ranks in the military
• Andrew Curtin: Governor of Pennsylvania during the Civil War
• Daniel Webster: Statesman and senator from Massachusetts
• Caleb Smith: Secretary of the Interior for Lincoln
• Frank Blair: Politician and Union Army general
• John Forney: Secretary of the Senate from 1861-1868
• Sarah Bush Johnston: Lincoln's stepmother
• Ann Rutledge: Lincoln's first love who died from typhoid
• Mary Owens: A crush of Lincoln's
• James Madison: Fourth President of the United States
• Elmer Ellsworth: Union soldier who was the first conspicuous casualty of the Civil War
• Edward Everett: Massachusetts politician and orator
• William Sprague: Kate Chase's millionaire husband
• Joshua Giddings: Representative from Ohio who was anti-slavery
• Zachariah Chandler: Michigan senator and radical republican
• William Freeman: Black man who served prison time for a crime he did not commit who later massacred a family
• Clement Vallandigham: Leader of the Copperhead faction of anti-war Democrats during the Civil War
• Henry Raymond: Politician and found of the New York Times
• Samuel Medary: Politician indicted for conspiracy against the government
• Varina Davis: Jefferson Davis' second wife
• Joseph Medill: Newspaper editor and publisher who supported Lincoln's campaign
• Hannibal Hamlin: Vice President under Lincoln
• Elizabeth Grimsley: One of Mary Lincoln's cousins
• Hamilton Gamble: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at the time of the Dred Scott decision
• Helen Nicolay: John Nicolay's daughter
• Lewis Cass: Leading spokesman for the the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty
• George L. Stearns: Union Major who headed the recruitment effort of black soldiers
• William Dennison: Ohio governor after Chase
• William Davis: Historian
• George Harding: Head of the firm who oversaw the reaper case
• Clara Harris: She with her fiancee Henry Rathbone were with Lincoln when he was shot
• John Coalter: Lawyer and judge from early Virginia
• Henry Winter Davis: Radical republican from Maryland
• Joshua Barton Bates: Bates' oldest child
• Charles Dana: Author and government official, best known for his association with Ulysses S. Grant during the American Civil War and his aggressive political advocacy after the war
• John Van Zandt: Aided the Underground Railroad and was found at fault in Jones v. Van Zandt
• Henry Foote: Mississippi senator who helped pass the Compromise of 1850
• Edwin Booth: John Wilkes Booth's older brother who was a celebrated actor
• Robert Anderson: Commander of Fort Moultrie
• Charles Wilkes: Captain of the Trent who captured James Mason and John Slidell on their way to England
• James Birney: Abolitionist in Cincinnati who was attacked over his publications
• Pamphila Stanton Wolcott: Edwin Stanton's sister
• Andrew Butler: South Carolina Senator who Sumner verbally attacked in a speech
• William Evarts: First to nominate Seward for the Republican candidate for President
• James Winchell: Railroad agent who helped to push for Chase as President
• Hannah Shearer: A friend of Mary Lincoln's
• Philip Sheridan: Union General sent to chase down Jubal Early and his soldiers in the Shenandoah Valley
• Hugh McCulloch: Assistant Treasury Secretary
• Stephen Logan: Lincoln's law partner for 3 years
• Jeremiah Black: Buchanan's Secretary of State
• John C. Frémont: Union General who was relieved due to incompetence and held a grudge as a result
• Henry Winter Davis: Leading member of the American Party in the House
• Philander Chase: Salmon Chase's uncle who took him in and educated him after his father's death
• John Brough: pro-Union candidate for Ohio governor that helped Lincoln's cause when he won the election
• Don Fehrenbacher: Historian
• Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy whom he called Neptune
• Thomas Stonewall Jackson: Confederate General who was killed by friendly fire
• John Barnes: Commander of the Bat who worked to make his ship ready to carry Lincoln
• Leonard Swett: Close lawyer friend of Lincoln's
• Mary Ord: General Ord's wife who Mary publicly scolded
• William Henry Harrison: Ninth President of the United States
• Count Gurowski: Polish Count who wrote much on American politics after he immigrated
• Francis P. Blair, Sr: Politician who worked to get Bates nominated for President
• Joseph Holt: Buchanan's Post-Master General
• Brutus: Role played by John Wilkes Booth not long before he assassinated Lincoln
• William H. Seward: Lincoln's Secretary of State and one time rival for the Presidential nomination who would go on to be one of the President's closest friends and survive an assassination attempt the night of Lincoln's shooting
• Richard N. Goodwin: Author's husband
• Mrs. Ord: Add a description of this character.
• Marie
• Gus

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• “Even as a child, Lincoln dreamed heroic dreams. From the outset he was cognizant of a destiny far beyond that of his unlettered father and hardscrabble childhood.”

• “"True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity," he ardently claimed. "Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights."”

  Salmon P. Chase

• “Soon a favorite among his fellow boarders, Lincoln was always ready with a story or anedote to entertain, persuade, or defuse argument. Samuel Busey, a young doctor who took his meals at the boardinghouse, recalled that whenever Lincoln was about to tell a story, "he would lay down his knife and fork, place his elbows upon the table, rest his face between his hands, and begin with the words 'that reminds me,' and proceed. Everyone prepared for the explosions sure to follow."”

• “On December 13, less than two weeks after his arrival in Washington, Lincoln wrote his law partner, William Herndon: "As you are all so anxious for me to distinguish myself, I have concluded to do so, before long."”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Washington, D.C.
• Richmond, Virginia: Capital of the Confederacy
• Springfield, Illinois: Hometown of Abraham and Mary Lincoln before moving to Washington DC to assume the presidency. (Lincoln was born in Kentucky)

Organizations edit see section history

• Republican Party: Add a description of this organization.
• Whig Party
• Democratic Party
• The Know Nothing Party
• The Liberty Party

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Leadership: Describe this theme.
• Adhering to Principles vs. popular pressure
• Slavery

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Doris Kearns Goodwin (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 2005: Biography)
• Lincoln Prize (2006)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: E457.45 .G66
• Dewey: 973.7092

Notes for Parents edit see section history

This is a masterful history book; it may be too dense for some young adults, but there are no inappropriate themes.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › United States › Political History
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › People, A-Z › ( L ) › Lincoln, Abraham
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Political
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Presidents & Heads of State
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical › United States
• Books › History

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Doris Kearns Godwin: The author's website.

Movie Connections edit see section history

• Lincoln (IMDb): 2012

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history