The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
点此进入淘宝搜索页搜索分類: 图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction（文学与虚构类）,Genre Fiction（类型小说）,
品牌: Stephen L. Carter
基本信息出版社:Knopf (2012年7月10日)精装:528页正文语种:英语ISBN:030727263X条形码:9780307272638商品重量:835 gASIN:030727263X您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介From the author of the best sellersThe Emperor of Ocean ParkandNew England White,an electrifying, provocative new novel that asks the question: What would have happened had Lincoln not been assassinated?
Stephen Carter's thrilling new novel takes as its starting point an alternate history: President Abraham Lincoln survives the assassination attempt at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865--only to be charged with overstepping his Constitutional authority during the Civil War, and faced with impeachment. Abigail, a young black woman recently graduated from Oberlin, is hired by a D.C. law firm to assist in Lincoln's defense. Working with a white clerk named Jonathan, and ducking the admonitions of her formidable Nanny Pork, Abigail embarks on a life that defies the norms of Washington society. But when one of Lincoln's lead lawyers is found brutally murdered, she finds herself plunged into a web of intrigue, politics, and conspiracy more tangled than she could have imagined. Here is a sweeping drama that captures the emotional tenor of post-Civil War America, that explores the nature of presidential authority (a particularly resonant subject for our own moment in history), and that gives us a galvanizing story of political suspense.作者简介STEPHEN L. CARTER is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University, where he has taught since 1982. He is also the author of seven books of nonfiction. He and his family live near New Haven, Connecticut.