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The Life of Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 1784-1815 - Letters from a Wayward Son (Hardcover)
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The Life of Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 1784-1815 - Letters from a Wayward Son (Hardcover)
Series: Perspectives on Early America
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Placed within a comprehensive contextual historical narrative, The
Life of Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 1784-1815 offers a compelling
portrait of one brilliant but compromised man's perspective of his
changing times. Daniel Waldo Lincoln, the second son of Levi
Lincoln, a prominent Massachusetts Democratic-Republican, was
destined to become a man of influence. Born in 1784, equipped with
wealth, prestige, a Harvard education, powerful friends, and a
distinguished family name, Lincoln ranked high among the inheritors
of the Revolution whose purpose was to protect the ideals of the
nation's founders. In over 250 private letters, essays, and poems
beginning with his first day at Harvard in 1801 and ending just
weeks before his death in 1815, Lincoln brings to readers a
portrait of privilege as it careened into disappointment. A young
man active in Republican circles, an orator and attorney in
Worcester, Portland, Maine, and Boston, Lincoln comments on the
politics, honor, religion, the War of 1812, and his struggles with
romance and alcohol. Written for private eyes, his letters are an
unusually candid eyewitness account of early-nineteenth-century
Massachusetts interwoven with his personal agonies. This volume is
of great use for students and scholars interested in life, society,
and politics in nineteenth-century America.
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