FIRST EDITION
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gerhardt, Michael J., 1956– author.
Title: Lincoln’s mentors : the education of a leader / Michael J. Gerhardt.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Custom House, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020038379 (print) | LCCN 2020038380 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062877192 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780062877185 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780062877208 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865—Friends and associates. | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865—Political career before 1861. | United States—Politics and government—19th century.
Classification: LCC E457.2 .G44 2021 (print) | LCC E457.2 (ebook) | DDC 973.7092—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020038379
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020038380
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Digital Edition FEBRUARY 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-287720-8
Version 12172020
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-287719-2
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* At seventy, Clay must have appreciated the fact that, as he stood in the cold, his speech was longer than the ninety-minute Inaugural Address given by the first Whig president, William Henry Harrison, in the icy rain that led to the pneumonia that, along with typhoid fever, killed him.
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