Lincoln on LincolnUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1999 - 198 páginas Even though Abraham Lincoln has been the subject of numerous biographies, his personality remains an enigma. For the 1860 presidential race he prepared two sketches of his life. These brief campaign portraits provide the core around which Paul Zall weaves extracts from correspondence, speeches, and interviews to produce an in-depth biography. These descriptions from Lincoln's speeches and correspondence offer a window into his soul and mind. Lincoln's own words reveal an emotional evolution typically submerged in political biographies. They explain, to a degree not previously understood, the great mystery of his life: the process through which he matured from laborer to store clerk to country lawyer to our greatest president. Of the various internal struggles that plagued him throughout this evolution, perhaps the most compelling is his attempt to reconcile his conscience with the rule of the Constitution. Zall frames lincoln's words with his own illuminating commentary, providing a continuous, compelling narrative. Beginning with Lincoln's thoughts on his parents, the story moves though his youth and early successes and failures in law and politics, and culminates in his clashes and conflicts -internal as well as external -- as president of a divided country. Abraham Lincoln was not the kind of person to bare his soul in public or in private. "Even between ourselves, " lamented Mary Todd Lincoln, "his expressions were few." Zall allows the sixteenth president to reveal his innermost thoughts, providing a fascinating glimpse of the man. |
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... October 1848 , noting how the captain floated the vessel stuck on a sand bar by using empty casks . The Smithsonian ... October 1849 : ? OCTOBER 1849 I am not an accomplished lawyer . 81 Making His Way with Wit and Wisdom.
... OCTOBER 1854 The State agricultural fair was at Springfield that Douglas was announced to speak there.1 year , and Lincoln initiated the tactic of “ shadowing " Douglas , replying to his speeches the next day until finally Douglas ...
... October 19 . 19 OCTOBER 1860 I regret the necessity of saying I have no daughters . I have three sons — one seventeen , one nine , and one seven , years of age . . . . As to the whiskers , having never worn any , do you not think people ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Surviving the Frontier | 7 |
Finding a New Life in New Salem | 21 |
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