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Mr. Michael Leavy
Lincoln Funeral Train, The
9781467109529
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The effective end of the American Civil War on April 9, 1865, had hardly sunk in when, only five days later, another disaster stunned the battered and bloodied nation. On the night of April 9, Pres. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. There would be time for vengeful thoughts later, but first the Great Emancipator was going to get a royal send-off. At the center of what would become a three-week national funeral was a spectacular train that would carry Lincoln’s remains, and those of his deceased son, from Washington, DC, to Springfield, Illinois. “The Lincoln Special” steamed slowly out of spring mists, allowing thousands of mourners lining the tracks a lingering view. It was a logistics miracle; a romantic pageant of sorrow and wonder, carried off flawlessly. Through the tears, however, was a sense that America’s identity had turned a corner and was about to enter a dynamic and hopeful future.
Author of nine books, Michael Leavy is an avid Civil War and railroad historian. Leavy has searched through archives to locate rare photographs and new details and dispel some lingering myths surrounding this tragic but formative American event.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin's Virtues Journal
9781429093927
Regular price $12.95 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Track Your Own Personal Growth Using Benjamin Franklin’s Book of Virtues
This companion paperback to Applewood’s edition of Benjamin Franklin’s Book of Virtues offers a journal to record your own efforts in becoming a better and more virtuous person using a rubric crafted by America’s beloved Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin.
Raymond P. Sinibaldi
John F. Kennedy in New England
9781467125215
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%
On May 29, 1917, John F. Kennedy was born in the Kennedy home in Brookline, Massachusetts. As a toddler, he wandered the sands of Nantasket Beach in Hull. When he was a little boy, he swam in the Atlantic waters of Sandy Beach in Cohasset, and as a teenager, he learned to sail on Nantucket Sound off the Cape Cod hamlet of Hyannis Port. He was married on the lawn of the Auchincloss Estate in Newport on the shores of Rhode Island Sound, and as president, he sailed the waters off John's Island in Maine, while the Navy's Blue Angels flew over in a salute to their commander in chief. John Kennedy was marked and then defined by his time sailing the seas off New England's shores, and as his brother Ted once said, it was Hyannis Port where he enjoyed his happiest times.
