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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... wrote it in a style that seeks to describe as well as to analyze , to feel as well as to comprehend . The thing about Lincoln is that he keeps growing and chang- ing . After I completed my biography and went on to a life of Martin ...
... wrote his fiancée . " Humanity has lost a firm advocate , our race its Patron Saint , and the good of all the world a fitting object to emulate .... The name Abraham Lincoln will ever be cherished in our hearts , and none will more ...
... wrote three years later , " so awful ugly it becomes beautiful , with its strange mouth , its deep cut , criss - cross lines , and its doughnut complexion . " Then he wrote something that was to affect Carl Sandburg enormously : " My ...
... would try to satisfy in his biography . " In Lincoln , " Sandburg himself wrote , " the people of the United States could finally see themselves , each for himself and all to- gether . " And he intended , Sandburg said , MAN OF THE PEOPLE.
... wrote The War Years , Sandburg abandoned poetical imaginings and produced a kind of symphonic documentary of the war and the man at its center . Though marred by a plethora of unauthenticated scenes and stories , the four volumes are ...
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 |