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 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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... land titles in Ky.8 After five years farming the place, Thomas Lincoln learned that his deed was defective because of faulty state records. The mention of slavery was a late addition in the manuscript, but the family's church had split ...
... reduce the price of public land” or “Should females be educated?” (Pond 6-17). Contemporaries say Lincoln about 1827 published newspaper essays, since disappeared, supposedly on debate topics such as the Constitution and alcoholism.
... lands, but the family also feared the epidemic of “milk-sick” that had this year so far taken four cows and eleven ... land and prairie, about ten miles Westerly from Decatur. Here they built a log-cabin, into which they removed, and ...
... land impracticable; to obviate which difficulty they purchased a large canoe and came down the Sangamon river in it. This is the time and manner of As first entrance into Sangamon County. was up 19 2 FINDING A NEW LIFE IN NEW SALEM 1831 ...
... land nearby, spent about four weeks making the boat, and reached the New Salem mill dam about 19 April (Howells, Life, 27). When the boat grounded on the dam, Lincoln bored a hole in the overhanging end trying to free it. It was in ...
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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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