For the first time ever, the intimate thoughts and political decisions of Abraham Lincolna??s entire presidencya??day by day. In a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincolna??s decisions in officea??including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his eleven-year-old son, Willie, died. Revealed are Lincolna??s private frustrations on September 28, 1862, as he wrote to vice president Hannibal Hamlin, a??The North responds to the [Emancipation] proclamation sufficiently with breath; but breath alone kills no rebels.a?? 366 Days in Abraham Lincolna??s Presidency includes fascinating facts like how Lincoln hated to hunt but loved to fire guns near the unfinished Washington monument, how he was the only president to own a patent, and how he...

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