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The Black Heavens - Abraham Lincoln and Death (Hardcover)
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From multiple personal tragedies to the terrible carnage of the
Civil War, death might be alongside emancipation of the slaves and
restoration of the Union as one of the great central truths of
Abraham Lincoln's life. Yet what little has been written
specifically about Lincoln and death is insufficient,
sentimentalized, or devoid of the rich historical literature about
death and mourning during the nineteenth century. The Black
Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death is the first in-depth account of
how the sixteenth president responded to the riddles of mortality,
undertook personal mourning, and coped with the extraordinary
burden of sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers to be killed on
battlefields. Going beyond the characterization of Lincoln as a
melancholy, tragic figure, Brian R. Dirck investigates Lincoln's
frequent encounters with bereavement and sets his response to death
and mourning within the social, cultural, and political context of
his times. At a young age Lincoln saw the grim reality of lives cut
short when he lost his mother and sister. Later, he was deeply
affected by the deaths of two of his sons, three-year-old Eddy in
1850 and eleven-year-old Willie in 1862, as well as the combat
deaths of close friends early in the war. Despite his own losses,
Lincoln learned how to approach death in an emotionally detached
manner, a survival skill he needed to cope with the reality of his
presidency. Dirck shows how Lincoln gradually turned to his
particular understanding of God's will in his attempts to
articulate the meaning of the atrocities of war to the American
public, as showcased in his allusions to religious ideas in the
Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural. Lincoln formed a
unique approach to death: both intellectual and emotional, typical
and yet atypical of his times. In showing how Lincoln understood
and responded to death, both privately and publicly, Dirck paints a
compelling portrait of a commander in chief who buried two sons and
gave the orders that sent an unprecedented number of Americans to
their deaths.
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