The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
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The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 21, 2012

    A MUST READ!

    Stephen L. Carter is one of my FAVORITE Authors and once again he has a "best seller" on my list!
    This story is about President Lincoln, after being shot, but instead of dying, he lives and goes through an impeachment trial. Very well written and makes you say "hmmm..." what if? Even though this is fiction, there is a lot of true facts used and spun in a way that makes you wonder, just how much is truly fiction and what's real.
    A MUST READ!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted July 13, 2012

    This book should shed a bit of light on the President who consol

    This book should shed a bit of light on the President who consolidated and centralized all federal powers in the U.S., and also went against the constitutional provision for states to cede.

    1 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 29, 2013

    :)

    Another read

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 20, 2013

    Engaging story!

    Truly thought-provoking storyline.

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  • Posted January 4, 2013

    One of the greatest authors out there today. This novel will hol

    One of the greatest authors out there today. This novel will hold the readers attention to the very end. What a masterful storyteller!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 4, 2013

    great read

    Richly developed characters play out an amazing storyline in this Lincoln book. By far one of my best reads in 2012.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 28, 2012

    Prof. Carter's combination of fact and fiction has produced a tr

    Prof. Carter's combination of fact and fiction has produced a true page turner!
    This is a unique approach to a "what if..." situation in our history. I really enjoyed reading it.

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  • Posted December 21, 2012

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    Intricately woven, richly informed, and as plausible as anything

    Intricately woven, richly informed, and as plausible as anything in contemporary history, "The Impeachment" is a mix of courtroom drama and traditional mystery that aspires -- and achieves -- to be entertaining genre fiction, a study of American race relations, a recognition of women as political protagonists, and a realization of history's political corpus -- where time and place shape as much for the country as personage and character. This wasn't a fast read, or a shallow one, but Carter's attention to detail creates such a plausible escape from history that the reality becomes equally refreshed. The shine taken briefly from Lincoln here makes us only doubly more appreciative that we ever had him at all.

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  • Posted September 5, 2012

    A totally misnamed book. Boring, insipid and uninspired

    A totally misnamed book.
    Boring, insipid and uninspired


    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 24, 2012

    Good pageturner.

    Fascinating concept and perspective on a highly bolatile period in American history.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 28, 2012

    Fascinating

    As crazy as the title may sound, it answers a big question about history: what if Lincoln survived his shooting?

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  • Posted July 20, 2012

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    Quite simply, a masterpiece Stephen L. Carter’s fifth n

    Quite simply, a masterpiece



    Stephen L. Carter’s fifth novel foreshadows many elements of our contemporary political dialogue. Should we embrace politicians whose motives to do the right thing are impure, or is it better to wait a generation for true idealists? Should Congress dictate the President’s choice of cabinet secretaries? Do our judges and Supreme Court justices pursue political agendas?

    The reader encounters wry humor in the male protagonist’s realization that marrying his high-school sweetheart will necessitate continual deference to her father’s views, and in a salty character’s introducing a prostitute to Queen Victoria’s court as a Philadelphia socialite.

    The tour of seedier neighborhoods in the nation’s capital is reminiscent of Tom Clancy’s similar account of Baltimore. The plot is reminiscent of John Grisham’s, the characters unforgettably drawn, the mixture of formal turgidity and anachronistic idiom – e.g., Lincoln’s use of the phrase “on my watch” – amusing.

    There is a learned exposition of codes and ciphers, and, above all, the description of the impeachment trial itself is a riveting and revealing case study of the law and jurisprudence.

    One pleasurably expects more historical fiction from this author, whose own remarkable achievements, including a long and ongoing career as a law professor at Yale, parallel those of his heroine, whom we are left to imagine reuniting with the male protagonist.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 19, 2012

    GREAT!!! GREAT!!! BOOK..... An absolutely awesome what if book

    GREAT!!! GREAT!!! BOOK..... An absolutely awesome what if book. What a great imagination.
    This is by far his greatest effort to date.

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