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But Symonds also shows that Lincoln could act decisively

it also illuminates the culture of nineteenth-century Victorian America: a rigid society barely concealing the suppressed impulses and undercurrents that only grew stronger as the century progressed

was kidnapped by Captain Raphael Semmes of the Confederate raider Alabama on October 9

Release date: April 25

the geologist-explorer Ferdinand Hayden led a team of scientists through a narrow canyon into Yellowstone Basin

Lincoln and Douglas (Jan Jacobi - YA) pin But Symonds also shows thatby Jan Jacobi Abraham Lincoln saw himself as the tortoise in a hopeless race against Stephen Douglas, the charismatic hare. Lincoln was perpetually in Douglass shadow. Theyd been friends and colleagues since they first met in the Illinois legislature in 1835. Douglas became the boy wonder of American politics while Lincoln failed in his one term in the House of Representatives. In 1849, believing his political career to be over, Lincoln returned to