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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... father and real mother ? What was he like as a lawyer , a husband , a man ? Was he really a country fellow who cracked jokes at the village store ? On that point , can the Lincoln stories told by Carl Sandburg be believed ? What in fact ...
... Father of our Republic on the anniver- sary of the day on which He was slain . Jesus Christ died for the world , Abraham Lincoln died for his country . " Blacks , too , viewed Lincoln with uninhibited reverence . " We mourn for the loss ...
... Father Abraham , the epilogue goes , the nation foundered in the harsh years of reconstruction , as an all - too - mortal President succumbed to " vengeful radicals " on Capitol Hill . Alas , how much better reconstruction would have ...
... Father Abraham who in the stormy present still provides an example and shows us the way . The Lincoln of my- thology carries the torch of the American dream , a dream of noble idealism , of self - sacrifice and common humanity , of ...
... fathers had " preempted the field of glory , " Lincoln took revenge against them : he became the " very tyrant against whom Washington had warned in his Farewell Address , a tyrant who would preside over the destruction of the ...
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 |