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Informationen zum Autor Harold Holzer is the senior vice president for external affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era, Holzer is the author, coauthor, or editor of twenty-three books--including The Lincoln Image , The Lincoln Family Album , and Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President --for which he has received numerous awards. He is the cochair of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. Klappentext Harold Holzer, the editor of Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President, dips once again into Lincoln's bulging mailbag to assemble and annotate a volume of letters, many of them never before published, that the American people wrote to their president during the Civil War - correspondence that offered praise, criticism, advice, threats, abuse, and appeals for help and for special favors from men and women throughout the country. Significantly, this collection may be more representative of the mood of the country at the time than Lincoln might have known; it includes letters from black Americans, originally routed to the War Department's Colored Troops Bureau, that Lincoln never saw. The letters, of course, speak for themselves, but Holzer's introduction and annotations provide historical context for events and people described as well as for those who wrote so passionately to their president in Lincoln's America. Zusammenfassung As president! Abraham Lincoln received correspondence from public officials! political allies! and military leaders! as well as letters from ordinary Americans of all races. This book includes letters written by African Americans! which Lincoln never saw! offering a different representation of the nation's mood.
