About the Book
Source: Wikia. Pages: 34. Chapters: Abraham Lincoln, Al Capone, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alfred Dreyfus, Alicia Gimpel, Andrei Tupolev, Bathsheba, Charles Manson, Charlie Kaapu, Charlie Woo, Cincinnatus Driver, Constantine II, Antipope, Cornelius, David Frisch, Demetrius, Edouard Daladier, Edward Kelley, Edwin Coppock, Egon Steinbrecher, Elizabeth I of England, Francesca Gimpel, Galileo Galilei, George Kistiakowsky, Geronimo, Gustav Fenstermacher, Heinrich Gimpel, Heintzelman, Heinz Buckliger, Henry Clay, Henry VI of England, Hiroshi Takahashi, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, Huey Long, Ingram Frizer, Jane Armitage, Jefferson Davis, Jens Larssen, Jesus, Johannes Drucker, Johannes Klein, John Brown, Juan Cortina, Kahanass, Kenzo Takahashi, Kurt Schussnigg, Lope de Vega, Lucy Woo, Ludwig, Mary I of Scotland, Moishe Russie, Murray, Napoleon III of France, Napoleon I of France, Nicholas II of Russia, O.J. Simpson, Oldivor, Paula, Philip Stubbes, Philippe Petain, Polina Zhemchuzhina, Pope Martin I, Richard Feynman, Richard S. Ewell, Robert E. Lee, Roxane Gimpel, Rudolf Bauer, Ruhollah Khomeini, Scipio, Shmuel Birnbaum, Simon Wiesenthal, Togram, Valsak, Vasilievsky, Vyacheslav Molotov, W.J. Shaw, Wilfred Rokeby, Willy Knight. Excerpt: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was an American politician elected from Illinois as the 16th President of the United States. As an outspoken opponent of slavery and leader in the western states, he won the Republican nomination in 1860 and was elected with an all-Northern base. Lincoln's election galvanized the Southern states, who refused to accept the result of the election. Seven southern states seceded from the Union. These states fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861. Lincoln promised military retaliation, prompting another four states to join these seven. Later in 1861, they formed the Confederate States, and the American Civil War was underway. From 1861 through 1865, Lincoln steered the country through the war, facing initial Southern mi...
