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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... Dixie ? Would reconstruc- tion have been different had he lived ? Was there a conspiracy on the part of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and the so - called Radical Republicans to have Lincoln assassinated - an allegation enshrined as ...
... Dixie into “ a vast graveyard of slaughtered whites , with Negro State governments established and upheld by Northern white bayonets . " But a mild and moderate Lincoln refuses to go along with them . He is now in his grandest hour ...
... Dixie . After all , southerners had seceded from the Union to save their slave - based social order from Lincoln's grasp . They hated the man . In rebel eyes , he was the black - hearted radical who had fomented the war . He was a ...
... Dixie , the son of a rebel veteran launched a neo - Confed- erate attack against Lincoln , pummeling him as the country's first dictator whose radical policies had annihilated the " civilized , beneficial , humane " arrangement wrongly ...
... Dixie , derived * Nor is there any truth to the persistent gossip that John C. Calhoun ( or possibly Henry Clay ) was Lincoln's real father . After my life of Lincoln appeared in 1977 , I received several letters chastising me for not ...
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 |