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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... called Radical Republicans to have Lincoln assassinated - an allegation enshrined as fact in several books and a recent motion picture and periodically reported in the popular media ? There is much more here about Lincoln's public and ...
... called Radical Re- publican colleagues , with Negroes and abolitionists , even with his southern adversaries . But because much of this scholarship inhab- its technical monographs and journal articles written by scholars for one another ...
... called him to his tragic destiny : his is " a mind , a spirit , a tongue , and a voice " for an American democracy caught in its greatest trial . As he leaves Illinois for Washington , the presidency , and the war years , voices cry out ...
... called radicals of the party - vindictive cynics like Charles Sumner and old Thad Stevens , who in Sand- burg's view want to exterminate the South's ruling class and convert Dixie into “ a vast graveyard of slaughtered whites , with ...
... called him to take the place he had won among earth's immortals and left to us ' the gentlest memory of our world . ' " During the Wilsonian era , a growing number of southerners embraced Dixon's Lincoln as a true son of Dixie ...
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 |