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100 1 $aAchorn, Edward,$eauthor.
245 10$aEvery drop of blood :$bthe momentous second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln /$cEdward Achorn.
246 30$aMomentous second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.
250 $aFirst edition.
250 $aFirst Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
264 1$aNew York :$bAtlantic Monthly Press,$c2020.
264 4$c©2020.
300 $axxxvi, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent.
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia.
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier.
500 $aSubtitle from pre-publication: Hatred and healing at Lincoln's second inauguration.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 305-321) and index.
505 0 $aBloody Gashes on the Face of Heaven -- One and a Half Times Bigger -- A Message from Grant -- The Real Precious and Royal Ones -- Meditation on the Divine Will -- Public Sentiment Is Everything -- Indefinable Fascination -- The Blighting Pestilence -- There Was Murder in the Air -- A Future with Hope in It -- Andy Ain't a Drunkard -- An Excellent Chance to Kill the President -- With Malice toward None -- A Truth That Needed to Be Told -- A Sacred Effort -- Epilogue: The Stuff to Carry Them Through.
520 $a"By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. That day, after a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington's Capitol grounds to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a second term. As the sun emerged, Lincoln rose to give perhaps the greatest inaugural address in American history, stunning the nation by arguing, in a brief 701 words, that both sides had been wrong, and that the war's unimaginable horrors-every drop of blood spilled-might well have been God's just verdict on the national sin of slavery. Edward Achorn reveals the nation's capital on that momentous day-with its mud, sewage, and saloons, its prostitutes, spies, reporters, social-climbing spouses, and power-hungry politicians-as a microcosm of all the opposing forces that had driven the country apart. Achorn weaves together the stories of the host of characters, unknown and famous, that had converged on Washington-from grievously wounded Union colonel Selden Connor in a Washington hospital, embarrassingly drunk new vice president Andrew Johnson, and poet-journalist Walt Whitman, to soldiers' advocate Clara Barton, African American leader Frederick Douglass (who called the speech "a sacred effort"), and conflicted actor John Wilkes Booth -all swirling around the complex figure of Lincoln. In indelible scenes, Achorn vividly captures the frenzy in the nation's capital at this crucial moment in America's history and the tension-filled hope and despair afflicting the country as a whole, soon to be heightened by Lincoln's assassination. His story offers new understanding of our great national crisis, and echoes down the decades to resonate in our own time"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10$aLincoln, Abraham,$d1809-1865$xInaugurations.
600 10$aLincoln, Abraham,$d1809-1865$xInfluence.
651 0$aWashington (D.C.)$xSocial life and customs$y19th century.
651 0$aWashington (D.C.)$xPolitics and government$y19th century.
651 0$aWashington (D.C.)$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865.