LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jcladenheim

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jcladenheim

  • Lincoln and Emancipation in the District of Columbia
    J. C. Ladenheim / JCLadenheim / Jules C. Ladenheim / Jules CLadenheim
    Lincoln had long sought emancipation for the District of Columbia. As President, he was hopeful that his plan for compensated emancipation would even find some support from among the slave owners, or at least would not be too distasteful to them. The book describes the passage of his District of Columbia Emancipation Bill through Congress, the modifications made on it and its r...
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    19,77 €

  • Grant’s Keeper
    J. C. Ladenheim / JCLadenheim / Jules C. Ladenheim / Jules CLadenheim
    Ulysses S. Grant is well-known as one of the pillars of our nation’s history; however, few are familiar with John A. Rawlings, the man that kept that pillar from crumbling. This is the story of John Rawlins, the man who guarded Grant, reproached him, and idolized him. He was Grant’s trusted confident, advisor and critic. Without him, many doubt that Grant could have fulfilled h...
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    32,02 €

  • Alien Horseman
    JCLadenheim / Jules CLadenheim
    Major (Count) Charles C. De Rudio, U.S.A. (Ret.), Italian by birth and American by adoption, 'gave his youth to the cause of Italian liberty and spent thirty-two years of unblemished service in the United States Army.' As a teenager, De Rudio was one of n ...
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    34,33 €

  • Abe Lincoln Afloat
    JCLadenheim
    In 1828, Abe Lincoln, a gangling eighteen year old Hoosier farm boy, made the first of two 2,500 mile journeys down and up the Mississippi River, which he undertook at no small risk to life and limb. The youth marveled at the hazards of navigation, the st ...
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    13,50 €

  • The Jarrett-Palmer Express of 1876, Coast to Coast in Eighty-Three Hours
    JCLadenheim
    Readers are invited to relive an era when riding a transcontinental train was a momentous experience. The Jarrett Palmer Express of 1876 is said to be 'the most important American train journey of the nineteenth century.' Not only did it require enormous ...
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    16,41 €