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Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons
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Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons Paperback - 2018

by Pryor, Elizabeth Brown

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Penguin Books, 2018-02-06. Paperback. Very Good. Penguin Books [Published Date: 2018]. Soft cover, 480 pp. First Penguin paperback printing, (with full number line). In very good condition. Brown pictorial paper covers have light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Contents include: A wary Handshake; Pfunny Pface; Two Emancipators Meet; Of Fathers and Sons; Hell-Cats; Te Hollow Crown; Epilogue to the Hollow Crown: Lincoln and Shakespeare; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Illustration credits; index. [From back cover] n this eye-opening book, Elizabeth Brown Pryor examines six intriguing, mostly unknown encounters that Abraham Lincoln had with his constituents. Taken together, they reveal his character and opinions in unexpected ways, illustrating his difficulties in managing a republic and creating a presidency. Pryor probes both the political demons that Lincoln battled in his ambitious exercise of power and the demons that arose from the very nature of democracy itself: the clamorous diversity of the populace, with its outspoken demands.
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Elizabeth Brown Pryor (1951-2015) combined careers as an award-winning historian and a senior diplomat in the American Foreign Service. She was the author of the biography Clara Barton: Professional Angel, considered the authoritative work on the founder of the American Red Cross, and Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters, which won the 2008 Lincoln Prize, the 2007 Jefferson Davis Award, the 2008 Richard B. Harwell Book Award, and the 2007 Richard S. Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography.