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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... leaving Thomas penniless (Angle, Portrait, 59). Thomas, the youngest son, and father of the present subject, by the early death of his father, and very narrow circumstances of his mother, even in childhood was a wandering laboring boy ...
Paul M. Zall. Before leaving Kentucky he and his sister were sent for short periods, to A.B.C. schools, the first kept by Zacharia Riney, and the second by Caleb Hazel. Riney, a local farmer, and Hazel, the tavern keeper, taught the ABCs ...
... leaving, they sold enough property to acquire $500 for relocating in the fabled fertile soil of Illinois. Their mode of conveyance was waggons driven by ox-teams and A. drove one of the teams. 17 “T was afoot but not barefoot. In my ...
... leaving the county They remained however, through the succeeding winter, which was the winter of the celebrated “deep snow” of Illinois. The family's cure for ague and fever consisted of “barks,” Peruvian bark and whiskey. Local lore ...
... leaving the field to Lincoln. Subsequent lore makes his military career seem fun-and-games, but the war was no comic opera. Enlisting for twenty-eight days, his men traversed muck and mire, clothes torn by briers, stumbling upon scenes ...
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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 | |