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THE IMPEACHMENT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
By: Stephen L. Carter
Knopf
July 2012
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Featuring: Abraham Lincoln
400 pages
ISBN: 030727263X
EAN: 9780307272638
Kindle: B006XWYGUY
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From the best-selling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, a daring reimagining of one of the most tumultuous moments in our nationβs past Stephen L. Carterβs thrilling new novel takes as its starting point an alternate history: President Abraham Lincoln survives the assassination attempt at Fordβs Theatre on April 14, 1865. Two years later he is charged with overstepping his constitutional authority, both during and after the Civil War, and faces an impeachment trial . . . Twenty-one-year-old Abigail Canner is a young black woman with a degree from Oberlin, a letter of employment from the law firm that has undertaken Lincolnβs defense, and the iron-strong conviction, learned from her late mother, that βwhatever limitations society might place on ordinary negroes, they would never apply to her.β And so Abigail embarks on a life that defies the norms of every stratum of Washington society: working side by side with a white clerk, meeting the great and powerful of the nation, including the president himself.Β But when Lincolnβs lead counsel is found brutally murdered on the eve of the trial, Abigail is plunged into a treacherous web of intrigue and conspiracy reaching the highest levels of the divided government. Here is a vividly imagined work of historical fiction that captures the emotional tenor of postβCivil War America, a brilliantly realized courtroom drama that explores the always contentious question of the nature of presidential authority, and a galvanizing story of political suspense.
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