Lincoln on LincolnPaul M. Zall Though Abraham Lincoln has been the subject of numerous biographies, his personality remains an enigma. During his lifetime, Lincoln prepared two sketches of his life for the 1860 presidential race. These brief campaign portraits serve as the core around which Paul Zall weaves extracts from correspondence, speeches, and interviews to produce an in-depth biography. Lincoln's writing about himself offers a window into the soul and mind of one of America's greatest president. His words reveal an emotional evolution typically submerged in political biographies. Lincoln on Lincoln shows a man struggling to reconcile personal ambition and civic virtue, conscience and Constitution, and ultimately the will of God and the will of the people. Zall frames Lincoln's words with his own illuminating commentary, providing a continuous, compelling narrative. Beginning with Lincoln's thoughts on his parents, the story moves though his youth and early successes and failures in law and politics, and culminates in his clashes and conflicts—internal as well as external—as president of a divided country. Through his writings, Lincoln said much more about himself than is commonly recognized, and Zall uses this material to create a unique portrait of this pivotal figure. |
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... March Family moves ten miles south of Decatur, 111. 1831 March Leaves home to seek his fortune; hires on for another flatboat trip to New Orleans; returns to settle as clerk in New Salem, 111. Elected captain in Black Hawk war, serves 4 ...
... March 1847 December Sits in 30th Congress, Washington 1848 With family, tours New England for September Whig party 1850 Son Edward dies of pulmonary February tuberculosis December Son William "Willie" born Father dies at age seventy-two ...
... March April 1862 February Son William dies in White House of September 1863 July bronchial pneumonia Circulates preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, to be effective 1 January 1863 Crucial victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg ...
... MARCH 1830 A. having just completed his 21st year, his father and family, with the families of the two daughters and sons-in-law, of his step-mother, left the old homestead in Indiana, and came to Illinois. The stepmother could not bear ...
... March 1831, the county was so flooded, as to make traveling by land impracticable; to obviate which difficulty they purchased a large canoe and came down the Sangamon river in it. This is the time and manner of As first entrance into ...
Contents
Making His Way with Wit and Wisdom | |
Stumping the State and the Nation | |
Preserving Protecting Defending | |
Making Peace All Passion Spent | |
Notes | |