Lincoln In His Own Time
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Lincoln In His Own Time
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Author : Harold K. Bush
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2011-10-21
Lincoln In His Own Time written by Harold K. Bush and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
More than any other American before or since, Abraham Lincoln had a way with words that has shaped our national idea of ourselves. Actively disliked and even vilified by many Americans for the vast majority of his career, this most studied, most storied, and most documented leader still stirs up controversy. Showing not only the development of a powerful mind but the ways in which our sixteenth president was perceived by equally brilliant American minds of a decidedly literary and political bent, Harold K. Bush’s Lincoln in His Own Time provides some of the most significant contemporary meditations on the Great Emancipator’s legacy and cultural significance. The forty-two entries in this spirited collection present the best reflections of Lincoln as thinker, reader, writer, and orator by those whose lives intertwined with his or those who had direct contact with eyewitnesses. Bush focuses on Lincoln’s literary interests, reading, and work as a writer as well as the evolving debate about his religious views that became central to his memory. Along with a star-struck Walt Whitman writing of Lincoln’s “inexpressibly sweet” face and manner, Elizabeth Keckly’s description of a bereaved Lincoln, “genius and greatness weeping over love’s idol lost,” and William Stoddard’s report of the “cheery, hopeful, morning light” on Lincoln’s face after a long night debating the fate of the nation, the volume includes selections from works by famous contemporary figures such as Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Lowell, Twain, and Lincoln himself in addition to lesser-known selections that have been nearly lost to history. Each entry is introduced by a headnote that places the selection in historical and cultural context; explanatory endnotes provide information about people and places. A comprehensive introduction and a detailed chronology of Lincoln’s eventful life round out the volume. Bush’s thoughtful collection reveals Lincoln as a man of letters who crafted some of the most memorable lines in our national vocabulary, explores the striking mythologization of the martyred president that began immediately upon his death, and then combines these two themes to illuminate Lincoln’s place in public memory as the absolute embodiment of America’s mythic civil religion. Beyond providing the standard fare of reminiscences about the rhetorically brilliant backwoodsman from the “Old Northwest,” Lincoln in His Own Time also maps a complex genealogy of the cultural work and iconic status of Lincoln as quintessential scribe and prophet of the American people.
The Living Lincoln
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Author : Abraham Lincoln
language : en
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
Release Date : 1992
The Living Lincoln written by Abraham Lincoln and has been published by Barnes & Noble Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with United States categories.
"[The authors] have selected the best of Lincoln's writings on himself and the tremendous issues of his day. By their skillful editing, letters, speeches, and documents are fused into an intimate self-portrait. Here is, in effect, Abraham Lincoln's autobiography, from his early years in Springfield, through the upheavals of his Presidency, tho the day before he died"--Front jacket flap
The Lives Of Lincoln
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Author : Christopher Tabbert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-11-06
The Lives Of Lincoln written by Christopher Tabbert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -- Abraham Lincoln The Lives of Lincoln is a collective biography of our greatest President by writers from his own time. The defining events of Lincoln's life and career, along with fascinating descriptions of his personality and behavior, are presented chronologically in forty-five selections, each by a different author. Their accounts illuminate both the public and private man. Authors include Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ulysses S. Grant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Henry, James Russell Lowell, Elizabeth Keckley, Nicolay & Hay, William Seward, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ida Tarbell, Walt Whitman, and (through a brief autobiographical sketch) Lincoln himself.
Abraham Lincoln His Story In His Own Words
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Author : Abraham Lincoln
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Abraham Lincoln His Story In His Own Words written by Abraham Lincoln and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Two autobiographical campaign sketches and excerpts from his letters and speeches provide a narrative of the Great Emancipator's life and presidency, from his Kentucky birth to three days before his assassination.
The Philosophy Of Abraham Lincoln In His Own Words
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Author : William E. Baringer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-09
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The Everyday Life Of Abraham Lincoln
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Author : Francis Fisher Browne
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2014-02-05
The Everyday Life Of Abraham Lincoln written by Francis Fisher Browne and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
History by the people who lived it.The original edition of this book was published about 20 years after Lincoln's death at the close of the Civil War. At that time many of the men who had taken a prominent part in the affairs, military and civil, of that heroic period, many who had known Lincoln and had come in personal contact with him during the war or in his earlier years, were still living. It was a vivid conception of the value of the personal recollections of these men, gathered and recorded before it was too late, that led to the preparation of this book. It was intended to be, and in effect it was, largely an anecdotal Life of Lincoln built of material gathered from men still living who had known him personally. The task was begun none too soon. Of the hundreds who responded to the requests for contributions of their memories of Lincoln there were few whose lives extended very far into the second quarter-century after his death, and few indeed survive after the lapse of nearly fifty years,—though in several instances the author has been so fortunate as to get valuable material directly from persons still living (1913). Of the more than five hundred friends and contemporaries of Lincoln to whom credit for material is given in the original edition, scarcely a dozen are living at the date of this second edition. Therefore, the value of these reminiscences increases with time. They were gathered largely at first hand. They can never be replaced, nor can they ever be very much extended.This book brings Lincoln the man, not Lincoln the tradition, very near to us. Browning asked, "And did you once see Shelley plain? And did he stop and speak to you?" The men whose narratives make up a large part of this book all saw Lincoln plain, and here tell us what he spoke to them, and how he looked and seemed while saying it. The great events of Lincoln's life, and impressions of his character, are given in the actual words of those who knew him—his friends, neighbors, and daily associates—rather than condensed and remolded into other form. While these utterances are in some cases rude and unstudied, they have often a power of delineation and a graphic force that more than compensate for any lack of literary quality.In a work prepared on such a plan as this, some repetitions are unavoidable; nor are they undesirable. An event or incident narrated by different observers is thereby brought out with greater fulness of detail; and phases of Lincoln's many-sided character are revealed more clearly by the varied impressions of numerous witnesses whose accounts thus correct or verify each other. Some inconsistencies and contradictions are inevitable,—but these relate usually to minor matters, seldom or never to the great essentials of Lincoln's life and personality. The author's desire is to present material from which the reader may form an opinion of Lincoln, rather than to present opinions and judgments of his own.Lincoln literature has increased amazingly in the past twenty-five years. Mention of the principal biographies in existence at the time of the original edition was included in the Preface. Since then there have appeared, among the more formal biographies, the comprehensive and authoritative work by Nicolay and Hay, the subsequent work by Miss Ida Tarbell, and that by Herndon and Weik, besides many more or less fragmentary publications. Some additions, but not many, have been made to the present edition from these sources. The recently-published Diary of Gideon Welles, one of the most valuable commentaries on the Civil War period now available, has provided some material of exceptional interest concerning Lincoln's relations with the members of his Cabinet.In re-writing the present work, it has been compressed into about two-thirds of its former compass, to render it more popular both in form and in price, and to give it in some places a greater measure of coherency and continuity as an outline narrative of the Civil War.
A Just And Generous Nation
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Author : Harold Holzer
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2015-11-03
A Just And Generous Nation written by Harold Holzer and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In A Just and Generous Nation, the eminent historian Harold Holzer and the noted economist Norton Garfinkle present a groundbreaking new account of the beliefs that inspired our sixteenth president to go to war when the Southern states seceded from the Union. Rather than a commitment to eradicating slavery or a defense of the Union, they argue, Lincoln's guiding principle was the defense of equal economic opportunity. Lincoln firmly believed that the government's primary role was to ensure that all Americans had the opportunity to better their station in life. As president, he worked tirelessly to enshrine this ideal within the federal government. He funded railroads and canals, supported education, and, most importantly, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which opened the door for former slaves to join white Americans in striving for self-improvement. In our own age of unprecedented inequality, A Just and Generous Nation reestablishes Lincoln's legacy as the protector not just of personal freedom but of the American dream itself.
Lincoln
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Author : Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-03-02
Lincoln written by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Arguably the most written-about man, from the most written-about era in American History, Abraham Lincoln is still largely unknown to most people. His life, his actions, and the world in which he lived we not simple. He was wrong as often as he was right, perhaps more so. Every biography about him is also wrong; Stephenson wrote an engaging, detailed, and well-researched biography of Lincoln; he pulls from sources both reliable and close to Lincoln, and in doing ensures that the facts are well-considered. If Stephenson's book suffers significantly, it is in the conclusion drawn from those facts, motives attributed to others not fully supported by the evidence, and an us-versus-them mentality that set Lincoln apart from others in his political circle, an over-simplification of the true picture. That being said, since all biographies are wrong and all pictures of a life are incomplete, this book add a dimension seldom seen in the life of Lincoln. Whether reading about Lincoln for the first time, or studying him in depth, Stephenson's Lincoln is a worthy addition to the vast treasure of work on our 16th President.
Lincoln In The Bardo
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Author : George Saunders
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-03-09
Lincoln In The Bardo written by George Saunders and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-09 with Fiction categories.
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH 'A masterpiece' Zadie Smith 'Extraordinary' Daily Mail 'Breathtaking' Observer 'A tour de force' Sunday Times The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of realism, entering a thrilling, supernatural domain both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself trapped in a transitional realm - called, in Tibetan tradition, the bardo - and as ghosts mingle, squabble, gripe and commiserate, and stony tendrils creep towards the boy, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul. Unfolding over a single night, Lincoln in the Bardo is written with George Saunders' inimitable humour, pathos and grace. Here he invents an exhilarating new form, and is confirmed as one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Deploying a theatrical, kaleidoscopic panoply of voices - living and dead, historical and fictional - Lincoln in the Bardo poses a timeless question: how do we live and love when we know that everything we hold dear must end?
Lincoln S Daughter
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Author : Tony Wolk
language : en
Publisher: Ooligan Press
Release Date : 2009-02
Lincoln S Daughter written by Tony Wolk and has been published by Ooligan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02 with Fiction categories.
On a trip to New Salem, Illinois, Will Studebaker finds himself trapped in a blizzard. He wakes up in 1833, where he soon comes face to face with Abraham Lincoln, the subject of his life's work, in this final volume of Wolk's Lincoln Out of Time trilogy.