Abraham Lincoln An Account Of His Personal Life
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| Author | : Michael Burlingame |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2021-06-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1643137352 |
An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Abraham Lincoln’s marriage to Mary Todd. Abraham Lincoln was apparently one of those men who regarded “connubial bliss” as an untenable fantasy. During the Civil War, he pardoned a Union soldier who had deserted the army to return home to wed his sweetheart. As the president signed a document sparing the soldier's life, Lincoln said: “I want to punish the young man—probably in less than a year he will wish I had withheld the pardon.” Based on thirty years of research, An American Marriage describes and analyzes why Lincoln had good reason to regret his marriage to Mary Todd. This revealing narrative shows that, as First Lady, Mary Lincoln accepted bribes and kickbacks, sold permits and pardons, engaged in extortion, and peddled influence. The reader comes to learn that Lincoln wed Mary Todd because, in all likelihood, she seduced him and then insisted that he protect her honor. Perhaps surprisingly, the 5’2” Mrs. Lincoln often physically abused her 6’4” husband, as well as her children and servants; she humiliated her husband in public; she caused him, as president, to fear that she would disgrace him publicly. Unlike her husband, she was not profoundly opposed to slavery and hardly qualifies as the “ardent abolitionist” that some historians have portrayed. While she providid a useful stimulus to his ambition, she often “crushed his spirit,” as his law partner put it. In the end, Lincoln may not have had as successful a presidency as he did—where he showed a preternatural ability to deal with difficult people—if he had not had so much practice at home.
| Author | : Michael Burlingame |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 659 |
| Release | : 2023-10-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1421445565 |
Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised. Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, freedom, and democracy, Abraham Lincoln is arguably the most studied and admired of all Americans. Michael Burlingame's astonishing Abraham Lincoln: A Life, an updated, condensed version of the 2,000-page two-volume set that The Atlantic hailed as one of the five best books of 2009, offers fresh interpretations of this endlessly fascinating American leader. Based on deep research in unpublished sources as well as newly digitized sources, this work reveals how Lincoln's character and personality were the North's secret weapon in the Civil War, the key variables that spelled the difference between victory and defeat. He was a model of psychological maturity and a fully individuated man whose influence remains unrivaled in the history of American public life. Burlingame chronicles Lincoln's childhood and early development, romantic attachments and losses, his love of learning, legal training, and courtroom career as well as his political ambition, his term as congressman in the late 1840s, and his serious bouts of depression in early adulthood. Burlingame recounts, in fresh detail, the Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln marriage and traces the mounting moral criticism of slavery that revived his political career and won this Springfield lawyer the presidency in 1860. This abridgement delivers Burlingame's signature insight into Lincoln as a young man, a father, and a politician. Lincoln speaks to us not only as a champion of freedom, democracy, and national unity but also as a source of inspiration. Few have achieved his historical importance, but many can profit from his personal example, encouraged by the knowledge that despite a lifetime of troubles, he became a model of psychological maturity, moral clarity, and unimpeachable integrity. His presence and his leadership inspired his contemporaries; his life story will do the same for generations to come.
| Author | : David A. Adler |
| Publisher | : Lerner Publishing Group |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2018-01-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1430130369 |
"This presentation of the pertinent facts of the life, times, and importance of the sixteenth president of the United States is a good starting point for children beginning history studies and biographies." - School Library Journal
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| Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
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| ISBN | : 1442901632 |
| Author | : Nathaniel W. Stephenson |
| Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
| Total Pages | : 550 |
| Release | : 2008-11-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1442900911 |
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| Author | : Nathaniel Wright Stephenson |
| Publisher | : CreateSpace |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2014-03-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781496126009 |
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.
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| Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
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| ISBN | : 1442901616 |
| Author | : Michael Burlingame |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 1061 |
| Release | : 2013-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1421410583 |
Now in paperback, this award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portrait of Lincoln. In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce current understanding of America’s sixteenth president. In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln’s presidency and the trials of the Civil War. He supplies fascinating details on the crisis over Fort Sumter and the relentless office seekers who plagued Lincoln. He introduces readers to the president’s battles with hostile newspaper editors and his quarrels with incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also interprets Lincoln’s private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd, the untimely death of his son Willie to disease in 1862, and his recurrent anguish over the enormous human costs of the war.
| Author | : Nathaniel Wright Stephenson |
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| Total Pages | : 520 |
| Release | : 1922 |
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| Author | : Francis Fisher Browne |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 680 |
| Release | : 1913 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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The present revision of "The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln" was the last literary labor of its author. He had long wished to undertake the work, and had talked much of it for several years past. But favorable arrangements for the book's republication were not completed until about a year ago. Then, though by no means recovered from an attack of pneumonia late in the previous winter, he took up the task of revision and recasting with something of his old-time energy. It was a far heavier task than he had anticipated, but he gave it practically his undivided attention until within three or four weeks of his death. Only when the last pages of manuscript had been despatched to the printer did he yield to the overwhelming physical suffering that had been upon him for a long time past. His death occurred at Santa Barbara, California, on May 11. Francis Fisher Browne was born at South Halifax, Vermont, on December 1, 1843. His parentage, on both sides, was of the purest New England stock. Early in his childhood, the family moved to Western Massachusetts, where the boy went to school and learned the printing trade in his father's newspaper office at Chicopee. As a lad of eighteen, he left the high school in answer to the government's call for volunteers, serving for a year with the 46th Massachusetts Regiment in North Carolina and with the Army of the Potomac. When the regiment was discharged, in 1863, he decided to take up the study of vilaw. Removing to Rochester, N.Y., he entered a law office in that city; and a year or two later began a brief course in the law department of the University of Michigan. He was unable to continue in college, however, and returned to Rochester to follow his trade.
