The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death

by Brian R. Dirck

Winner, Lincoln Group of New York Award of Achievement 2019

From multiple personal tragedies to the terrible carnage of the Civil War, death might be alongside emancipation of the slaves and restoration of the Union as one of the great central truths of Abraham Lincoln's life. Yet what little has been written specifically about Lincoln and death is insufficient, sentimentalized, or devoid of the rich historical literature about death and mourning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809337029
• ISBN13: 9780809337026
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"