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"Abraham Lincoln was the first president consistently to make storytelling and laughter tools of office. This book shows how his uses of humor evolved to fit changing personal circumstances, and explores its versatility, range of expressions, and multiple sources"--

Abraham Lincoln looms large in American memory. He is admired for his many accomplishments, including his skills as an orator and writer and his unswerving leadership during the strife-ridden years of the Civil War. Now, Michael Green unveils another side to the sixteenth president: that of the astute political operator.

In this succinct study, Jason H. Silverman investigates Abraham Lincoln's evolving personal, professional, and political relationship with the wide variety of immigrant groups he encountered throughout his life, revealing that Lincoln related to the immigrant in a manner few of his contemporaries would or could emulate.

The concept of 'fellow citizens' for Abraham Lincoln encompassed different groups at different times. In this first book focused on the topic, Mark Steiner analyses and contextualizes Lincoln's evolving views about citizenship over the course of his political career.

This evenhanded assessment explains how Abraham Lincoln thought about Native Americans, interacted with them, and was affected by them. Although ignorant of Native customs, Lincoln revealed none of the hatred or single-minded opposition to Native culture that animated other leaders and some of his own political and military officials.

Offers a treatment of Abraham Lincoln's invention of a device to buoy vessels over shoals. This book shows how, when, where, and why Lincoln created his invention and demonstrates how his penchant for inventions and discoveries informed his political belief in internal improvements and free-labor principles.