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Simon & Schuster New York 2005 xix, [1], 916, [1] p.: Five in-text maps, 15 in-text illustrations and 32 unpaginated pages, containing 77 illustrations; 24 cm. (9.5 inches). Black cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title, brown paper over boards. Glossy, illustrated black, white, and gold dust jacket, featuring engraving by Alexander Hay Ritchie, First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet (detail), National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the National Gallery of Art. Back section black and white photographs of Seward, Chase, Stanton, and Bates. courtesy of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, and a black and white photo of Lincoln, courtesy of Corbis. Includes Epilogue, Acknowledgments, Notes, Illustration Credits, Index and brief Biography of the Author. Black and white illustrated endpapers. Deckled fore-edges. "Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. . . . This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history" [from the dust jacket]
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