"Lincoln's Humor" And Other Essays
Benjamin Platt Thomas, Michael Burlingame (Editor)
Gathers the uncollected work on Lincoln by Benjamin P Thomas, regarded as the greatest Lincoln historian of his generation. This diverse collection is enhanced by an introduction by Michael Burlingame, himself a leading biographer of Lincoln, who provides a portrait of Thomas and his circuitous path toward writing history.
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Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi PART 1: THE WORDS OF LINCOLN 1. Lincoln's Humor: An Analysis 3 2. Abraham Lincoln 23 3. Lincoln's Way with Words 28 4. The Meaning of the Gettysburg Address, Then and Today 34 PART 2: THE LIFE OF LINCOLN 5. Lincoln and Democracy 45 6. Some Popular Misconceptions about Lincoln 60 7. Lincoln and New Salem 71 8. Lincoln and the South 79 9. Lincoln from 1847 to 1853 90 10. Abe Lincoln, Country Lawyer 139 11. Lincoln and the Courts, 1854-61 153 12. Edwin M. Stanton Takes Over the War Department 189 PART 3: THE BIOGRAPHERS OF LINCOLN 13. Backstage with the Lincoln Biographers 207 14. Harry Edward Pratt 222 15. Our Lincoln Heritage from Ida Tarbell 230 16. The Art of Biography 246 Index 253