Lincoln on LincolnPaul 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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Page xi
... Father rejoins children after several months in Kentucky to wed Sarah Bush Iohnston Sister Sally dies in childbirth, aged 21 Takes first flatboat voyage to New Orleans Family moves ten miles south of Decatur, Ill. Leaves home to seek ...
... Father rejoins children after several months in Kentucky to wed Sarah Bush Iohnston Sister Sally dies in childbirth, aged 21 Takes first flatboat voyage to New Orleans Family moves ten miles south of Decatur, Ill. Leaves home to seek ...
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... Father dies at age seventy-two Son Thomas “Tad” born. Aids in forming Republican party in Illinois Debates Stephen A. Douglas in race for U.S. Senate; wins popular vote, loses in legislature that named Senators Sends autobiographical ...
... Father dies at age seventy-two Son Thomas “Tad” born. Aids in forming Republican party in Illinois Debates Stephen A. Douglas in race for U.S. Senate; wins popular vote, loses in legislature that named Senators Sends autobiographical ...
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... father the president, were with Grandfather Lincoln when he was shot, May 1786, on the 400-acre site he had helped to survey in Iefferson County (Register Kentucky State Historical Society 27 [1929] 408). Robert Todd Lincoln gave ...
... father the president, were with Grandfather Lincoln when he was shot, May 1786, on the 400-acre site he had helped to survey in Iefferson County (Register Kentucky State Historical Society 27 [1929] 408). Robert Todd Lincoln gave ...
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Paul Zall. Thomas, the youngest son, and father of the present subject, by the early death of his father, and very narrow circumstances of his mother, even in childhood was a wandering laboring boy, and grew up litterally without ...
Paul Zall. Thomas, the youngest son, and father of the present subject, by the early death of his father, and very narrow circumstances of his mother, even in childhood was a wandering laboring boy, and grew up litterally without ...
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... father resided on Knob-creek, on the road from Bardstown Ky. to Nashville Tenn. at a point three, or three and a half miles South or South-West of Atherton's ferry on the Rolling Fork. (I was born on Nolin, very much nearer Hodgin's ...
... father resided on Knob-creek, on the road from Bardstown Ky. to Nashville Tenn. at a point three, or three and a half miles South or South-West of Atherton's ferry on the Rolling Fork. (I was born on Nolin, very much nearer Hodgin's ...
Contents
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2 Finding a New Life in New Salem | 21 |
3 Seeking a Fortune in Springfield | 35 |
4 Making His Way with Wit and Wisdom | 69 |
5 Stumping the State and the Nation | 89 |
6 Preserving Protecting Defending | 115 |
7 Making Peace All Passion Spent | 145 |
Notes | 175 |
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