{"product_id":"abraham-lincoln-9780752497754","title":"Abraham Lincoln","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Adam I. P. Smith\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: History Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: History Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Presidents \u0026amp; Heads of State\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe President who 'freed' the slaves and held the Union together in the face of the slaveholding South's bid to create a separate Confederacy. The teller of ribald stories, and the author of the most sublime speeches in the English language. A clever, complex, secretive man who rose from frontier obscurity to become the central figure at the moment when the United States of America came close to disintegration. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas Lincoln the 'Great Emancipator', whose wartime leadership helped free four million enslaved people? Or was he a nationalist who jumped late on the antislavery bandwagon? Was his intransigence the cause of much bloodshed? Or was he a pragmatist whose leadership minimised the destruction of the war?.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis concise biography situates Lincoln in his time and place. A very human figure who, after his assassination by a leading Shakespearean actor, was turned into an icon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"History Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45045849227415,"sku":"9780752497754","price":586.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780752497754.webp?v=1769217342","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/abraham-lincoln-9780752497754","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}