Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths“There is no better introduction to current thinking about Lincoln and his place in history.” —Newsday An essential book for any student of Lincoln and American history, Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths is acclaimed Lincoln biographer Stephen B. Oates's unique exploration of America's sixteenth president in reality and memory. In this multifaceted portrait, Oates, "the most popular historical interpreter of Lincoln" (Gabor S. Boritt, New York Times Book Review), exposes the human side of the great and tragic president—including his depression, his difficulties with love, and his troubled and troubling attitudes about slavery—while also confronting the many legends that have arisen around "Honest Abe." Oates throughout raises timely questions about what the Lincoln mythos reveals about the American people. |
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... Confederate press pro- nounced him a " Fiend " who wanted to incite a race war in Dixie ; Jefferson Davis considered the proclamation " the most execrable measure recorded in the history of guilty man , " and rebels every- where vowed ...
... Confederate veteran told a diehard band of ex - rebels in Richmond that the whole Lincoln story " amounts to a patent perversion of the truth , and a positive fraud on the public . " The historian - general of the Confederate Southern ...
... Confederate cavalryman , popularized that Lincoln in his epic motion picture The Birth of a Nation . And Senator James K. Vardaman of Mississippi , the dramatic " White Chief " who dressed in white , wore his dark hair to his shoulders ...
Contents
ManyMooded | 31 |
All Conquering Mind | 45 |
Mr Lincoln | 51 |
The Beacon Light of Liberty | 57 |
This Vast Moral Evil | 65 |
My Dissatisfied Fellow Countrymen | 75 |
The Central Idea | 89 |
The Man of Our Redemption | 111 |
Final | 149 |
Aftermath | 164 |
Acknowledgments | 189 |
Index | 215 |