Abraham Lincoln "was a tall, spare man, with large bones, and
towering up to six feet and four inches. He leaned forward, and
stooped as he walked. . . . There was no grace in his movements,
but an expression of awkwardness, combined with force and vigor. By
nature he was diffident, and when in crowds, not speaking and
conscious of being observed, he seemed to shrink with bashfulness.
. . . His forehead was broad and high, his hair was rather stiff
and coarse, and nearly black, his eye-brows heavy, his eyes dark
grey, clear, very expressive, and varying with every mood, now
sparkling with humor and fun, then flashing with wit; stern with
indignation at wrong and injustice, then kind and genial, and then
again dreamy and melancholy."
Isaac N. Arnold's word picture owes everything to personal
observation because he knew Abraham Lincoln well for a quarter of a
century. Eventually an adviser to the sixteenth president, Arnold
attended his inaugurations, heard his great speeches, visited him
at the White House, and on a spring day in 1865 joined the
procession that carried his slain body there. Twenty years later he
published his biography giving a detailed sense of Lincoln the
entertaining storyteller, the shrewd politician, the steadfast
visionary.
Here is the story of Lincoln's rise from humble origins to the
presidency, backgrounded by events leading inexorably to the Civil
War. Boyhood in Kentucky and Indiana, legal and legislative
experiences, marriage to Mary Todd, name-making debates with
Stephen Douglas, struggles as president to end slavery and shore up
the union, conduct of Northern forces as commander-in-chief, murder
at Ford's Theater--all fuel the narrative drive of "The Life of
Abraham Lincoln."
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