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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... never fainted from loss of blood, I can truly say I was often very hungry. 4 He and George Harrison were discharged 10 July after Lincoln had mustered out 27 May as captain, 16 June as private in Captain Elijah Iles's company, and now ...
... never to try it again.” 8 [He] was beaten—his own precinct, however, casting it's votes 277 for and 7 against him. And this too while he was an avowed Clay man, and the precinct the autumn afterwards, giving a majority of 115 to Genl ...
... 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. Berry's death in ...
... never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.11 Stuart described Lincoln's own habits on the circuit during 1844-53: “In the evening Lincoln would ...
... never been to church yet, nor probably shall not be soon. I stay away because I am conscious I should not know how to behave myself. I am often thinking about what we said of your coming to live in Springfield. I am afraid you would not ...
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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 | |