Abraham Lincoln's World

<b>A unique look at the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century </b><i></i><br/><i>A</i><i>braham Lincoln's World </i>describes not only important new developments during Lincoln's life-time but also relates them - and other key events- to the appropriate historical and geographical context. There are chapters devoted to Missouri California Kansas Texas and the deep south and to Illinois Lincoln's own home-state. The book's final chapter focuses on Lincoln's four years (1861-65) in the White House but it also describes how Lincoln won both the presidential race and the war that then followed almost inevitably as a result of this victory. <br/><br/>Thomas Crump also examines how the United States was transformed - politically economically geographically and socially - during Lincoln's life and how more than anyone else he adapted to these changes and gave them a new direction. Crump's portrait of Lincoln's America shows how institutions places and people changed during Lincoln's lifetime and how by the time of his death the country was on the verge of a great breakthrough. Written with clarity and insight this is an engaging account of the true beginnings of the modern United States.