The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House (Bison books)

by Mark E . Neely (Introduction), F . B . Carpenter (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1995

  $27.97

  Presents an account of the author's experience at the White House in which he watched the daily parade of petitioners who came to Abraham Lincoln's office - worried mothers, desperate job-seekers, needy widows and orphans. It reveals Lincoln's own account of the decision to abolish slavery by proclamation.