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Abraham Lincoln - A Life (Paperback)
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Abraham Lincoln - A Life (Paperback)
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In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be
published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a
fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents.
Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with
decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and
long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and
reinforce our current understanding of America's sixteenth
president. Volume 1 covers Lincoln's early childhood, his
experiences as a farm boy in Indiana and Illinois, his legal
training, and the political ambition that led to a term in Congress
in the 1840s. In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's life
during his presidency and the Civil War, narrating in fascinating
detail the crisis over Fort Sumter and Lincoln's own battles with
relentless office seekers, hostile newspaper editors, and
incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also offers new
interpretations of Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage
to Mary Todd and the untimely deaths of two sons to disease. But
through it all - his difficult childhood, his contentious political
career, a fratricidal war, and tragic personal losses - Lincoln
preserved a keen sense of humor and acquired a psychological
maturity that proved to be the North's most valuable asset in
winning the Civil War. Published to coincide with the 200th
anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this landmark publication
establishes Burlingame as the most assiduous Lincoln biographer of
recent memory and brings Lincoln alive to modern readers as never
before.
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