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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... believe I am ready . I am nothing , but truth is everything . I know I am right , because I know that liberty is right , for Christ teaches it and Christ is God . " For Holland and other writers , ministers , and orators of this tradi ...
... believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality . And inasmuch as they cannot so live . . . I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the ...
... believe in lynchings , but before I start living together with niggers , before I sit next to them in movies , before I see intermarriages , before I send my children to school with blacks , before I am forced by the Supreme Court with ...
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 |