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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... 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 , this Lincoln of The War Years , as he plans to reconstruct the 14 MYTH.
... Northern Democrats castigated him as an abolitionist dicta- tor , abolitionists as a dim - witted product of a slave state , and all manner of Republicans as an incompetent charlatan . In truth , Lincoln may have been one of the two or ...
... northern deification of Lincoln was more than she could stand . " Is it insanity or pure mendacity , " she cried , " to liken a man of this nature to the gentle and loving Nazarene ? " Was Lincoln tender- hearted , she wanted to know ...
... northern biography of Lincoln , sneered that " the whole story of his career from beginning to end is so dreary , so wretched , so shabby , such a tissue of pitiful dodging and chicanery , so unrelieved by anything pure , noble , or ...
... northern ghettoes . Out of their disillusionment with America , out of their own quest for black identity and black pride , came a black fist that knocked Lincoln off his pedestal . In Look Out , Whitey ! Black Power's Gon ' Get Your ...
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 |