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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... rebel eyes , he was the black - hearted radical who had fomented the war . He was a Yankee Attila , a mobocrat , a ... rebels every- where vowed to fight all the harder against the monster who had issued it . When Lincoln was ...
... rebels in Richmond that the whole Lincoln story " amounts to a patent perversion of the truth , and a positive fraud ... rebel veteran launched a neo - Confed- erate attack against Lincoln , pummeling him as the country's first dictator ...
... rebels , whom he forced to start the Civil War at Fort Sumter , and then became a virtual dictator . Worse still , in his posturing as God's instrument to save the Union , the satanic Lincoln bequeathed a disastrous legacy to twentieth ...
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 |