Lincoln on LincolnPaul M. Zall University Press of Kentucky, 2003 M09 21 - 216 páginas Though Abraham Lincoln has been the subject of numerous biographies, his personality remains an enigma. During his lifetime, Lincoln prepared two sketches of his life for the 1860 presidential race. These brief campaign portraits serve as the core around which Paul Zall weaves extracts from correspondence, speeches, and interviews to produce an in-depth biography. Lincoln's writing about himself offers a window into the soul and mind of one of America's greatest president. His words reveal an emotional evolution typically submerged in political biographies. Lincoln on Lincoln shows a man struggling to reconcile personal ambition and civic virtue, conscience and Constitution, and ultimately the will of God and the will of the people. 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. Through his writings, Lincoln said much more about himself than is commonly recognized, and Zall uses this material to create a unique portrait of this pivotal figure. |
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... married Nancy Hanks—mother of the present subject—in the year 1806. She also was born in Virginia. The present subject has no brother or sister of the whole or half blood. He had a sister, older than himself, who was grown and married ...
... married Mrs. Sally Johnston, at Elizabeth-Town, Ky—a widow, with three children of her first marriage. Thomas Lincoln left ten-year-old Abraham and twelve-year-old Sally alone on the frontier for nine months while he courted Sally Bush ...
... married at Elizabethtown by Methodist preacher George L. Rogers on December 2, but she would not leave Kentucky until satisfying all debts. Her own children were Elizabeth, nine, John, seven, and Matilda (Tildy), five (Herndon and Weik ...
... married lady of my acquaintance, and who was a great friend of mine, being about to pay a visit to her father and other relatives residing in Kentucky, proposed to me, that on her return she would bring a sister of hers with her, upon ...
... married sister to come, without any thing concerning me ever having been mentioned to her; and so I concluded that if no other objection presented itself, I would consent to wave this. All this occured upon my hearing of her arrival in ...
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Making His Way with Wit and Wisdom | |
Stumping the State and the Nation | |
Preserving Protecting Defending | |
Making Peace All Passion Spent | |
Notes | |