Lincoln on LincolnPaul Zall University Press of Kentucky, 2010 M09 12 - 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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Paul Zall. They reached the county of Macon, and stopped there some time within the month of March. His father and family settled a new place on the North side of the Sangamon river, at the junction of the timber-land and prairie, about ...
Paul Zall. They reached the county of Macon, and stopped there some time within the month of March. His father and family settled a new place on the North side of the Sangamon river, at the junction of the timber-land and prairie, about ...
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... county. They remained however, through the succeeding winter, which was the ... county, hired themselves to one Denton Offutt, to take a flat boat from ... Sangamon river in it. This is the time and manner of A's first entrance into ...
... county. They remained however, through the succeeding winter, which was the ... county, hired themselves to one Denton Offutt, to take a flat boat from ... Sangamon river in it. This is the time and manner of A's first entrance into ...
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... Sangamon Town sawmill on Prairie Creek they cut timber on government land nearby, spent about four weeks making the ... county. John D. Johnston, the stepmother's son, went to them; and A. stopped indefinitely, and, for the first time ...
... Sangamon Town sawmill on Prairie Creek they cut timber on government land nearby, spent about four weeks making the ... county. John D. Johnston, the stepmother's son, went to them; and A. stopped indefinitely, and, for the first time ...
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... Sangamon River, indicating his concern for improving the river. Though an anti-Iacksonian in Jackson country, his ... county, and if elected they will have. popularity among his immediate neighbors, he, the same year, ran for the ...
... Sangamon River, indicating his concern for improving the river. Though an anti-Iacksonian in Jackson country, his ... county, and if elected they will have. popularity among his immediate neighbors, he, the same year, ran for the ...
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... Sangamon Journal candidate's statement (above): “Fellow citizens, I presume you all know who I am. I am humble ... county of Sangamon to have such a looking man as I am stuck up for the Legislature; now, I thought this was a free country ...
... Sangamon Journal candidate's statement (above): “Fellow citizens, I presume you all know who I am. I am humble ... county of Sangamon to have such a looking man as I am stuck up for the Legislature; now, I thought this was a free country ...
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3 Seeking a Fortune in Springfield | 35 |
4 Making His Way with Wit and Wisdom | 69 |
5 Stumping the State and the Nation | 89 |
6 Preserving Protecting Defending | 115 |
7 Making Peace All Passion Spent | 145 |
Notes | 175 |
Selected Bibliography | 183 |
Index | 191 |
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