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 2008 LINCOLN PENNY P D TWO ROLL SET  US $3.00
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 DISCOVERY LINCOLN LOGS BUILDING SET Good Used Condition US $12.99
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 Huge Lot Vintage Lincoln Logs Multiple Sets over 1040 Pieces w metal figures US $49.99
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Lincoln LS 4-Wheel Replacement Kit!
Our Lincoln LS replacement kit was exclusively designed for your 2000-2006 Lincoln LS. This kit replaces the manual hydraulic suspension with reliable coil-over-strut assemblies. Our 2000-2006 Lincoln LS kit is designed to give you that new ride feel, and replaces the factory hydraulic suspension. These Passive Coil-Over-Struts fit perfectly without welding or modifying the original suspension on your 2000-2006 Lincoln LS. And it can be done for a fraction of the price that a dealer would charge to repair your existing suspension system.
The Lincoln LS is a vehicle that is crafted and manufactured with the Lincoln make of the Ford Motor Company in the usa. This is a type of luxury cars, as well as for most of its lifetime, the name, Lincoln LS Suspension Parts has often been found in reference to the Lincoln flagship that displayed four doors. This vehicle was initially developed as Edsel Ford's personal vehicle. This vehicle has often been rated as one of the most beautiful vehicles ever crafted the world over. A car's suspension method is for a public school teacher: overworked and under-appreciated systems.It has to support the weight from the car, including passengers and cargo, while allowing the wheels and tires to go up and down to minimize impacts from cracks, bumps and the other numerous imperfections within the road. Your suspension also prevents excessive body squat and dive during acceleration and braking. There are a variety of suspension systems out there, but without question, air suspension remains the favourite.
Air shocks are powered by an engine-driven or electric air compressor and continue to be wildly popular among those knowledgable. The compressor pressurizes air and uses it to change conventional steel springs. An air bag suspension provides a smoother ride and it is fully adjustable, allowing drivers to tweak each wheel's air pressure individually as well as tilt the vehicle sideways or front to back to level out. The environment cushion softens the contact between the axle and also the frame to relieve bottoming out, and they provide between 500 – 5,000 lbs of load-leveling capacity depending on your vehicle and the type of air suspension you get. Most air compressor kits are a complete solution for upgrading your suspension, including the air compressor, manifold, wiring harness , control box and some that even feature a 5-gallon air tank that fills with 200psi in less than 40 seconds.
A performance grade air suspension kit is the Road Runner of the auto world: pretty much unbeatable. And since we live in the time of tech, many air compressors can be controlled by a wireless remote from inside the cab of your vehicle. This innovative system makes adjusting your air springs from inside (or outside) your cab simple-just push a button, and you're off. Plus, the wireless design means you won't have a nest of wires running through your cab. Many air suspension systems feature advanced diagnostics to provide complete control of your air shocks. In addition, many systems provide a setting for user-defined memory, allowing you to quickly switch between your most frequently used settings.
One word of advice: don't be tempted by generic parts. When it comes to your suspension system, the best kits are those that have been personally-tailored to your unique make, model and year, providing all the components required for a quick and easy do-it-yourself installation. Nothing's worse than getting half-way through a suspension upgrade only to find out the kit you ordered is missing some key component, like the air compressor or the air lines.
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HEROES IN HISTORY-LINCOLN BEARD & HAT SET $17.95 LINCOLN BEARD & HAT SET |
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Lincoln Commemorative & Pictorial Set $24.95 "Lincoln Commemorative & Pictorial SetGet two great Lincoln keepsakes at one low price.LINCOLN COMMEMORATIVE NEWSPAPER: Introductions by David Herbert Donald, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and Harold Holzer, historian and co-chairman of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. This 96-page newspaper reproduces original news coverage from The Times that traces Lincoln's rise to political prominence, his election, the major events during his presidency and his assassination. The opening page of each of the six sections includes background notes by Mr. Donald and Mr. Holzer. Comes in a keepsake box (12"" x 18"" x 1""). LINCOLN PICTORIAL MAGAZINE: This 16-page publication has 195 historic pictures on the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. First published on Feb. 9, 1913, this magazine is reprinted on heavy stock paper and provides an illustrated history of Lincoln from the log cabin to the White House. " |
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Lincoln Logs Collectors Edition Set $73.99 Its LINCOLN LOGS� just as you remember! This set contains the highest quality real wood pieces stained to match those of the original Lincoln Logs�! It captures the timeless beauty and simplicity of LINCOLN LOGS� with the red chimneys and green slats for more building fun. |
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The Lincoln Secret $3.95 The Lincoln Secret is a historical mystery-adventure novel set in modern-day America. Founded upon several historical theories about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, the novel takes the reader through Abraham Lincoln's life and death while the characters work to unravel several mysteries from that period. The story follows two main characters: Sean Johnson, a reporter in Seattle, who is researching a theory that Abraham Enloe fathered Abraham Lincoln; Kim Poole, a woman in Kansas City, who uncovers a family secret that her ancestor changed his last name over fear of something related to Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. A professor of history at University of Tennessee who specializes in Lincoln soon joins the mix. There are sinister forces at work against them. |
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The Lincoln Bicentennial Collection Set $68.42 The Lincoln Bicentennial Collection contains three complete volumes of works by and about the 16th President. The first two books, the landmark "Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832a1858" and "Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859a 1865," which Alfred Kazin called it a amomentous and thrilling addition to any private library, a have been reissued with commemorative bicentennial jackets. Edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher, these two books include all Lincolnas significant works, including both sides of the complete Lincoln-Douglas debates, dozens of speeches, hundreds of personal political letters, communications to the generals in the field, presidential messages and proclamations, poems, and private reflections on democracy, slavery, and the meaning of the Civil Waras immense suffering. The boxed set also includes "The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now," which collects pieces by 100 major authors and important historical figures from Lincolnas time to the present. Edited by celebrated Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer, this collection gathers fascinating writing from a variety of genres to illuminate the Lincoln we know and revere. It enables readers to rediscover Lincoln anew through the eyes of some of our greatest writers, including Winston Churchill, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, U. S. Grant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Henrik Ibsen, Karl Marx, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, Booker T. Washington, H. G. Wells, Walt Whitman, Garry Wills, and many others. Historian James M. McPherson remarked, aThis extraordinary anthology contains the best and most evocative words written about Abraham Lincoln over the last two centuries, skillfully edited by Harold Holzer.a |
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Abraham Lincoln Set: A Life $98.73 In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce current understanding of America's sixteenth president. Volume 1 covers Lincoln's early childhood, his experiences as a farm boy in Indiana and Illinois, his legal training, and the political ambition that led to a term in Congress in the 1840s. In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's life during his presidency and the Civil War, narrating in fascinating detail the crisis over Fort Sumter and Lincoln's own battles with relentless office seekers, hostile newspaper editors, and incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also offers new interpretations of Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd and the untimely deaths of two sons to disease. But through it all -- his difficult childhood, his contentious political career, a fratricidal war, and tragic personal losses -- Lincoln preserved a keen sense of humor and acquired a psychological maturity that proved to be the North's most valuable asset in winning the Civil War. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this landmark publication establishes Burlingame as the most assiduous Lincoln biographer of recent memory and brings Lincoln alive to modern readers as never before. |
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Holiday Inn LINCOLN $85 The Holiday Inn Lincoln, set in the centre of this contemporary city, contrasted by architectural treasures that reflect its rich history |
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Lincoln's Legacy of Leadership $90 An in-depth look at Abraham Lincoln's leadership, both before and during his presidency. Lincoln led through times of confusion, war, and dissent. The set of chapters included in this volumeare based on papers that constituted part of the 2008-2009 Jepson Leadership Forum at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. The chapters consider Lincoln's intellectual, moral, political, and military leadership. The authors include the world's foremost Lincoln scholars, including Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Walker Howe, and Lincoln Prize winners Richard Carwardine and Douglas Wilson. |
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Lincoln, Lincoln $10 Lincoln, Lincoln - Haystak |
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Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly $30.83 A lively historical portrait set against the turbulent backdrop of the antebellum South, the Civil War, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the early Reconstruction period explores the remarkable friendship between two very different women--First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her mulatto dressmaker and confidante, Elizabeth Keckly, a former slave. Reprint. |
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Letter to Lincoln $28.88 The story begins aboard a British steamer, Sirius, leaving South Hampton on its way to Bermuda. A young boy, Alex, whose father is secretary to the American Ambassador in London, is traveling with Angus, a close friend of the Ambassador. Also aboard are two agents of the U.S. War Department. Itas a time just before the beginning of the Civil War in the U.S. Unknown to Alex, Angus is carrying a secret letter to the next President of the U.S., Abraham Lincoln. The letter tells how to set up a naval blockade of Southern ports. The War Departmentas agents, supporters of the Southern cause, are aboard to find and destroy the secret letter. Many exciting adventures begin with Alex and Angus being taken off the Sirius to be detained in Charleston, South Carolina, followed by an escape aboard the Underground Railroad; protection from bounty hunters in a Safe House; sailing down the Cape Fear River, on up to Richmond, Virginia; meeting up with Abner Lowe, the balloon maker, and finally landing by balloon on the steps of the White House to deliver their letter to Lincoln. |
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Lincoln $39.99 Lincoln - Giclee Print |
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Complete 2009 Lincoln Penny Roll Set $35.32 This coin set commemorates the 200th Anniversary of the birth of one of our greatest Presidents, Abraham Lincoln. Issued on the 100th Anniversary of the Lincoln Cent's entry into circulation, this Lincoln Penny Roll Set includes a roll of all four designs released in 2009 celebrating Lincoln's birth, formative years, professional life, and presidency.2009 Lincoln Cent Birthplace (Log Cabin) Roll (50 BU Coins)2009 Lincoln Cent Formative Years (Wood Chopper) Roll (50 BU Coins)2009 Lincoln Cent Professional Life Roll (50 BU Coins)2009 Lincoln Cent Presidency Roll (50 BU Coins)Dimensions: 1 inch high x 4 inches wide x 3 inches longModel: 47055 |
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Zombie Abraham Lincoln Oil Painting $32.99 Living-dead Abe Lincoln! The Zombie Abraham Lincoln Oil Painting comes framed. Honest Abe gets an undead makeover. Add a little "life" to your room! Living-dead Abe Lincoln! Honest Abe gets an undead makeover in this Zombie Abraham Lincoln Oil Painting. Hand painted and set in a 13-inch tall x 11-inch wide gold-colored frame, this surefire conversation starter will add "life" to any room in your home! |
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Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas $24.83 Abraham Lincoln was a skilled politician, an inspirational leader, and a man of humor and pathos. What many may not realize is how much he was also a man of ideas. Despite the most meager of formal educations, Lincoln's tremendous intellectual curiosity drove him into the circle of Enlightenment philosophy and democratic political ideology. And from these, Lincoln developed a set of political convictions that guided him throughout his life and his presidency. "Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas," a compilation of ten essays from Lincoln scholar, Allen C. Guelzo, uncovers the hidden sources of Lincoln's ideas and examines the beliefs that directed his career and brought an end to slavery and the Civil War. These essays reveal Lincoln to be a man of impressive intellectual probity and depth as well as a man of great contradictions. He was an apostle of freedom who did not believe in human free will; a champion of the Constitution who had to step outside of it in order to save it; a man of many acquaintances and admirers, but few friends; a man who opposed slavery but also opposed the abolition of it; a man of prudence who took more political risks than any other president.Guelzo explores the many faces of Lincoln's ideas, and especially the influence of the Founding Fathers and the great European champions of democracy. And he links the 16th president's struggles with the issues of race, emancipation, religion, and civil liberties to the challenges these issues continue to offer to Americans today.Lincoln played many roles in his life--lawyer, politician, president--but in each he was driven by a core of values, convictions, and beliefs about economics, society, and democracy. "Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas" is a broad and exciting survey of the ideas that made Lincoln great, just as we celebrate the bicentennial his birth. |
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Lincoln Wheat Cent Starter Set $54.03 The Lincoln Wheat Penny designed by Victor Brenner was one of the most popular and enduring coin designs in U.S. History. The Lincoln Wheat Cent series ran from 1909 through 1958 and was issued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. 50 Lincoln Wheat Pennies of different dates and mintmarksIncludes at least one 1909 cent and one 1943 steel cent Two volumes of Archival Quality Folders with openings for every business strike One pair of white cotton gloves to safely handle the coinsDimensions: 8 inches high x 6 inches wide x 2 inches deepModel: 47057 |
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The WomanHaters by Lincoln, Joseph C. [Hardcover] $51.09 Joseph Crosby Lincoln, (18701944) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod. Author: Lincoln, Joseph C. Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 360 Publication Date: 2007/09/01 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.93 inches |
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1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History $3.95 In a masterful narrative, historian and biographer Charles Bracelen Flood brings to life the drama of Lincoln's final year, in which he oversaw the last campaigns of the Civil War, was reelected as president, and laid out his majestic vision for the nation's future in a reunified South and in the expanding West. In "1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History," the reader is plunged into the heart of that crucial year as Lincoln faced enormous challenges. The Civil War was far from being won: as the year began, Lincoln had yet to appoint Ulysses S. Grant as the general-in-chief who would finally implement the bloody strategy and dramatic campaigns that would bring victory. At the same time, with the North sick of the war, Lincoln was facing a reelection battle in which hundreds of thousands of "Peace Democrats" were ready to start negotiations that could leave the Confederacy as a separate American nation, free to continue the practice of slavery. In his personal life, he had to deal with the erratic behavior of his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and both Lincolns were haunted by the sudden death, two years before, of their beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie. "1864" is the story of Lincoln's struggle with all this -- the war on the battlefields and a political scene in which his own secretary of the treasury, Salmon P. Chase, was working against him in an effort to become the Republican candidate himself. The North was shocked by such events as Grant's attack at Cold Harbor, during which seven thousand Union soldiers were killed in twenty minutes, and the Battle of the Crater, where three thousand Union men died in a bungled attempt to blow up Confederate trenches. The year became so bleak that on August 23, Lincoln wrote in a memorandum, "This morning, as for several days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be reelected." But, with the increasing success of his generals, and a majority of the American public ready to place its faith in him, Lincoln and the nation ended 1864 with the close of the war in sight and slavery on the verge of extinction. "1864" presents the man who not only saved the nation, but also, despite the turmoil of the war and political infighting, set the stage for westward expansion through the Homestead Act, the railroads, and the Act to Encourage Immigration. As 1864 ends and Lincoln, reelected, is planning to heal the nation, John Wilkes Booth, whose stalking of Lincoln through 1864 is one of this book's suspenseful subplots, is a few weeks away from killing him. |
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A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set $23.99 A trio of novels from internationally bestselling suspense master and seven-time Edgar Award nominee Jeffery Deaver, featuring quadriplegic NYPD detective Lincoln Rhyme and his beautiful protÉgÉe, Detective Amelia Sachs (portrayed by Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie in the film The Bone Collector ). The Coffin Dancer Lincoln Rhyme is on the hunt for an elusive murderer known only as the Coffin Dancer, a brilliant hitman who changes his appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. Only one victim has ever lived long enough to offer a clue to the killer’s identity: an eerie tattoo on his arm of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman in front of a casket. When the chameleonlike assassin targets three federal witnesses for death in forty-eight hours, Rhyme must use his protÉgÉe and partner, Detective Amelia Sachs, as his eyes, ears, and legs to track the cunning murderer through the subways, parks, and airports of New York City and stop him before he strikes again. The Empty Chair Desperate to improve his condition, Lincoln Rhyme travels to the University of North Carolina Medical Center for high-risk experimental surgery. When a local teen is murdered and two young women go missing in the sleepy Southern outpost of Tanner’s Corner, Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, are the town’s best chance to find the girls alive. The prime suspect is a strange teenaged truant known as the Insect Boy, so nicknamed for his disturbing obsession with bugs, and Rhyme agrees to find the boy while awaiting his operation. But even Rhyme can't anticipate that Sachs will disagree with his crime analysis, and that her vehemence will put her in the swampland, harboring the very suspect whom Rhyme considers a ruthless killer. The Stone Monkey Recruited to help the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs, manage to track down a cargo ship headed for New York City carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as "the Ghost." But when the Ghost's capture goes disastrously wrong, Lincoln and Amelia find themselves in a race to track him down before he can find and murder the two surviving families from the ship, who have vanished into the labyrinth of New York City's Chinese community. As Rhyme struggles to locate the families, aided by a quirky policeman from mainland China, Sachs finds herself forming a connection with one of the immigrants that may affect her relationship with her partner and lover. |
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Abraham and Mary Lincoln (Hardcover) $30.79 For decades Abraham and Mary Lincoln’s marriage has been characterized as discordant and tumultuous. In Abraham and Mary Lincoln, author Kenneth J. Winkle goes beyond the common image of the couple, illustrating that although the waters of the Lincoln household were far from calm, the Lincolns were above all a house united. Calling upon their own words and the reminiscences of family members and acquaintances, Winkle traces the Lincolns from their starkly contrasting childhoods, through their courtship and rise to power, to their years in the White House during the Civil War, ultimately revealing a dynamic love story set against the backdrop of the greatest peril the nation has ever seen. When the awkward but ambitious Lincoln landed Mary Todd, people were surprised by their seeming incompatibility. Lincoln, lacking in formal education and social graces, came from the world of hardscrabble farmers on the American frontier. Mary, by contrast, received years of schooling and came from an established, wealthy, slave-owning family. Yet despite the social gulf between them, these two formidable personalities forged a bond that proved unshakable during the years to come. Mary provided Lincoln with the perfect partner in ambition—one with connections, political instincts, and polish. For Mary, Lincoln was her “diamond in the rough,” a man whose ungainly appearance and background belied a political acumen to match her own. While each played their role in the marriage perfectly— Lincoln doggedly pursuing success and Mary hosting lavish political soirées—their partnership was not without contention. Mary—once described as “the wildcat of her age”—frequently expressed frustration with the limitations placed on her by Victorian social strictures, exhibiting behavior that sometimes led to public friction between the couple. Abraham’s work would at times keep him awa |
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The Lincoln Highway Around Chicago $19.72 Once known as the aMain Street of America,a the Lincoln Highway through western Indiana and eastern Illinois became the first urban bypass on the first hard-surfaced transcontinental highway in the nation. This stretch of the highway is also home to the famous Ideal Section, which set the national standard for road construction in 1923. Through some 200 vintage photographs, this armchair tour of the highway from Schererville, Indiana, to Geneva, Illinois, visits sites that early-day tourists saw and documents the people who made the highway what it was in 1913 and the people who worked to preserve its spirit and history at the close of the century. The Lincoln Highway around Chicago defines and describes the role of the Lincoln Highway in the Chicago area from a gravel track to a miracle mile that has served local residents as well as cross-country travelers for nearly 100 years. |
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MaryGusta by Lincoln, Joseph C. [Hardcover] $53.56 Joseph Crosby Lincoln (18701944) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod. Lincoln frequently published work in popular magazines like The Saturday Evening Post. Author: Lincoln, Joseph C. Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 420 Publication Date: 2008/04/30 Language: English Dimensions: 5.51 x 8.50 x 1.06 inches |
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The Library of America Lincoln Bicentennial Collection $98.89 A threevolume boxed set includes two volumes of the sixteenth presidents speeches and writings, along with an anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry by authors ranging from Churchill and Grant to Tolstoy and Twain. Subtitle: Lincoln Speeches and Writings 18321858/The Lincoln Anthology, Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now/Lincoln Speeches and Writings 185 Publication Date: 2008/12/26 Number of Pages: 1700 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 4.75 Width: 5.50 Height: 8.75 |
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Abraham and Mary Lincoln $16.2 For decades Abraham and Mary Lincoln's marriage has been characterized as discordant and tumultuous. In "Abraham and Mary Lincoln," author Kenneth J. Winkle goes beyond the common image of the couple, illustrating that although the waters of the Lincoln household were far from calm, the Lincolns were above all a house united. Calling upon their own words and the reminiscences of family members and acquaintances, Winkle traces the Lincolns from their starkly contrasting childhoods, through their courtship and rise to power, to their years in the White House during the Civil War, ultimately revealing a dynamic love story set against the backdrop of the greatest peril the nation has ever seen. When the awkward but ambitious Lincoln landed Mary Todd, people were surprised by their seeming incompatibility. Lincoln, lacking in formal education and social graces, came from the world of hardscrabble farmers on the American frontier. Mary, by contrast, received years of schooling and came from an established, wealthy, slave-owning family. Yet despite the social gulf between them, these two formidable personalities forged a bond that proved unshakable during the years to come. Mary provided Lincoln with the perfect partner in ambition--one with connections, political instincts, and polish. For Mary, Lincoln was her "diamond in the rough," a man whose ungainly appearance and background belied a political acumen to match her own. While each played their role in the marriage perfectly-- Lincoln doggedly pursuing success and Mary hosting lavish political soirees--their partnership was not without contention. Mary--once described as "the wildcat of her age"--frequently expressed frustration with the limitations placed on her by Victorian social strictures, exhibiting behavior that sometimes led to public friction between the couple. Abraham's work would at times keep him away from home for weeks, leaving Mary alone in Springfield. The true test of the Lincolns' dedication to each other began in the White House, as personal tragedy struck their family and civil war erupted on American soil. The couple faced controversy and heartbreak as the death of their young son left Mary grief-stricken and dependent upon seances and spiritualists; as charges of disloyalty hounded the couple regarding Mary's young sister, a Confederate widow; and as public demands grew strenuous that their son Robert join the war. The loss of all privacy and the constant threat of kidnapping and assassination took its toll on the entire family. Yet until a fateful night in the Ford Theatre in 1865, Abraham and Mary Lincoln stood firmly together--he as commander-in-chief during America's gravest military crisis, and she as First Lady of a divided country that needed the White House to emerge as a respected symbol of national unity and power. Despite the challenges they faced, the Lincolns' life together fully embodied the maxim engraved on their weddin |
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Abraham Lincoln Coin and Stamp Collection $79.99 "This outstanding coin and stamp set from The New York Times commemorates Abraham Lincoln�s inauguration and his lasting legacy. This framed showpiece displays nine authentic Lincoln pennies, including a historical Lincoln cent from 1909, the first year of issue. The other coins, all in collectible condition, are: 1943 Lincoln steel penny; 1958 last-year-of-issue wheat penny; 1959 first-year-of-issue Lincoln Memorial penny; all four 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial pennies; and 2010 Lincoln Union Shield Penny. Also featured: three vintage stamps from 1958 and 1959, and a reprint of The Times front page from March 4, 1861, the day Lincoln became president. Comes in a 16� x 14� black wood frame. " |
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Oneida Lincoln 45 Piece Set $170 Lincoln's triangular beveled tip is balanced by a quill-shaped well that extends and tapers to the shank. Stainless steel, dishwasher safe. 45 piece service for 8 includes: 8 dinner forks, 8 salad forks, 8 place knives, 8 place spoons, 8 teaspoons. Plus 5 serving pieces: 2 serving spoons, 1 sugar spoon, 1 butter knife and 1 serving fork. This item requires Heavy Delivery. For more information, click on Delivery Choices & Costs. When ordering multiples of this item, additional shipping fees will be charged. Before levying such charge, we will contact you with the proposed amount of the charge. If you do not want to accept the surcharge, we will cancel your order without any penalty to you. |
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Summers with Lincoln: Looking for the Man in the Monuments $22.74 Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly 200 statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. No other American has ever been so widely commemorated.A few years ago, anticipating the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth in 2009, Jim Percoco, a history teacher with a passion for both Lincoln and public sculpture, set off to see what he might learn about some of these monuments-what they meant when they were unveiled, and what they mean to us today. The result is this captivating book, a fascinating chronicle of four summers on the road looking for Lincoln stories in statues of marble and bronze. Of all the monuments, Percoco selects seven emblematic ones. He begins and ends the journey in Washington, starting with Thomas Ball's Emancipation Group, erected east of the Capitol in 1876 with private funds from African Americans, and dedicated by Frederick Douglass. Here, Percoco and his multi-ethnic band of teenage historians explore the impact of this Freedman's Monument showing Lincoln and a kneeling freed bondsperson. What does the statute say about race and freedom to today's Americans? What did Ball-and his sponsors-want it to say? From Augustus Saint-Gaudens's majestic Standing Lincoln of 1887 in Chicago, which helped move our image of Lincoln from great emancipator to that of statesman to Paul Manship's 1932 Lincoln the Hoosier Youth, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, which glows with an art deco sleekness, Percoco mines a wealth of Lincoln legacies-and our reactions to them expressed across generations. Here are controversial gems like Barnard's 1917 tribute in Cincinnati and Borglum's Seated Lincoln, struggling with the pain of leadership, beckoning visitors to sit next to him on his metal bench in Newark, New Jersey. At each stop, Percoco chronicles the history of each monument, spotlighting its artistic, social, political, and cultural origins. His descriptions of works so often seen as clichs tease fresh meaning from mute stone and cold metal-raising provocative questions not just about who Lincoln might have been, but also about what we've wanted him to be in the monuments we've built. |
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Lincoln Wooden Swing Set $1186.99 Quality wood construction that stands the test of time. Creative Play builds some of the best quality swing sets you will find. Includes 4x4 heavy duty construction 5� High 48 inch x 57 inch Play Deck lunch counter heavy duty swing beam and much more. |