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Washington, D.C. in Lincoln's Time (Journalist's Lincoln)
Washington DC in Lincoln's Time - Journalist's Lincoln Author:Noah Brooks Of all the journalists who sought access to Abraham Lincoln, Noah Brooks was the favourite of the 16th president. A friend from the Illinois prairie campaign, Brooks was a combination Washington, White House and war correspondent who, in 1895, distilled his reportage for the "Sacremento Union" into a memoir of the Civil War years, &quo... more »t;Washington, DC, in Lincoln's Time".
Reissued with Herbert Mitgang's editorial commentary, the book offers a firsthand glimpse of the political crisis which engulfed the nation and the personal endeavours of President Lincoln to see it through.« less