Lincoln on LincolnPaul M. Zall University Press of Kentucky, 2003-09-21 - 216 psl. 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 conflictsinternal as well as externalas 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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... Mary Todd supposedly causes depression Seeks relief with best friend Joshua Speed at Louisville 1841 January Summer 1842 Weds Mary Todd November 1843 August Robert Todd Lincoln born 1844 Autumn Visit to boyhood home evokes poems Son ...
... Mary Todd Lincoln, when our deep and touching sorrows, were one and the same, his expressions were few. 1 Yet to sensitive readers even those few expressions could open a view on the inner struggle to reconcile personal ambition and ...
... Mary Todd Lincoln's letters W&D Wilson and Davis, Lincoln's Informants Other manuscripts are listed with Huntington accession numbers, usually prefixed by HM or LN, or with frame numbers of Library of Congress film by the Reference ...
... Council Bluffs in 1860 (Drake 34-35; Lokken 136-38). Son Robert sold what Mary Todd Lincoln called wild lands in Iowa in 1892 for $13,000 (Beveridge l:553n; MTL 265). APRIL-JULY 1832 He went the campaign, served near three months, met ...
... Mary Owens of Kentucky. Like ill-fated and unmentioned Ann Rutledge, she was of medium height but more rotund and, like Mary Todd, had a first-class education. Mary Todd, his law partner's cousin, was also sister-in-law of Ninian W ...
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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 | |
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