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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... appears in his absences - 92 in the last session of 1840 versus colleagues ' average of 53.7 , while two returns in 1840 showed him trailing his party at the polls ( Simon 150 , 206 , 271 ) . 1840 I do not think my prospects ...
... appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty , is very distinct and vivid . Yet the impression , is common - almost universal . Let no young man , choosing the law for a calling 83 Making His Way with Wit and Wisdom.
... appears to be wise and right . The subject is difficult , and good men do not agree . 28 At Secretary Seward's suggestion , Lincoln had delayed issuing the Emancipation Proclamation until Union forces achieved a major victory ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Surviving the Frontier | 7 |
Finding a New Life in New Salem | 21 |
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