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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... Lincoln went on to study arithmetic. Schoolmaster Dorsey recalled Abraham owning a battered old arithmetic Thomas Lincoln had found somewhere (Raymond 21). Dorsey, a farmer, and his guardian James Swaney (not Sweeney) along with Justice ...
... (Thomas, New Salem, 43). APRIL 1831 They found Offutt at Springfield, but learned from him that he had failed in getting a boat at Beardstown. This lead to their hiring themselves to him at $12 per month, each; and getting the timber out ...
... Lincoln would insist he “never kept a grocery anywhere in the world” (Thomas, New Salem, 60-62; CW 3:16). With at most twenty-five families, New Salem in 1832 had three general stores. Lincoln and Berry took over Reuben Bradford's place ...
... Lincoln to the county surveyor, John Calhoun. Both knew he lacked experience, but Calhoun relied on Lincoln's ... (Thomas, New Salem, 119n). He needed little encouragement to enter politics. Even before leaving Indiana he attended ...
... Thomas Chitty's Forms of Practical Proceedings (1843) gave models for such documents as wills and deeds. The other texts recommended were by Harvard professors: Simon Greenleaf's Treatise on the Laws of Evidence (1842-53) and Joseph ...
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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 | |