Lincoln on the Eve of '61
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. First Edition. 105, pp. v-viii creased. The author was stationed at Springfield, IL, after the election of 1860 to report for the New York Herald and the Associated Press on the day-by-day doings of Abraham Lincoln. This book contains the telegrams and letters Villard sent as he filed his reports, and reflects his belief that in Lincoln the North had found the great leader the crisis called for. Condition: good, rear flap only.
Keywords: U.S. Presidents, Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, IL, Journalism, Stephen A. Douglas, Mary Todd Lincoln, Confederacy, Civil War
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