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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... give - and secondly , if he had , he could hardly be expected to give them to whigs , at the solicitation of a whig Member of Congress . ? JANUARY 1848 All the battles of the Mexican war had been fought before Mr. L. took his seat in ...
... give up the charming hope ; but with greedier anxiety they rush about him , sustain him , and give him marches , tri- umphal entries , and receptions beyond what even in the days of his highest prosperity they could have brought about ...
... give no offence to others — leave them in a mood to come to us , if they shall be compelled to give up their first love . This , too , is dealing justly with all , and leaving us in a mood to support heartily whoever shall be nominated ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Surviving the Frontier | 7 |
Finding a New Life in New Salem | 21 |
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