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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... 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 Edward born 1846 March 1847 December Sits in 30th Congress, Washington 1848 ...
... Speed, 19 June 1841 (below) would be expanded five years later for the Quincy Whig (CW 1: 371-76). Mrs. Browning, newly wed to Lincoln's friend and fellow boarder Orville Browning, hosted Lincoln in their rooms at Vandalia on many an ...
... Speed to remove him to the Speeds' ancestral Kentucky home for supervised care (D. Wilson, Fatal, 101-30). 23 JANUARY 1841 I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family ...
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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 | |