Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers.
Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own
taciturn father, Lincoln turned to the great men of the
founding--Washington, Paine, Jefferson--and their great
documents--the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution--for
knowledge, guidance, inspiration, and purpose. Out of the power
vacuum created by their passing, Lincoln emerged from among his
peers as the true inheritor of the Founders' mantle, bringing their
vision to bear on the Civil War and the question of slavery.
In "Founders' Son," celebrated historian Richard Brookhiser
presents a compelling new biography of Abraham Lincoln that
highlights his lifelong struggle to carry on the work of the
Founding Fathers. Following Lincoln from his humble origins in
Kentucky to his assassination in Washington, D.C., Brookhiser shows
us every side of the man: laborer, lawyer, congressman, president;
storyteller, wit, lover of ribald jokes; depressive, poet, friend,
visionary. And he shows that despite his many roles and his varied
life, Lincoln returned time and time again to the Founders. They
were rhetorical and political touchstones, the basis of his
interest in politics, and the lodestars guiding him as he navigated
first Illinois politics and then the national scene.
But their legacy with not sufficient. As the Civil War lengthened
and the casualties mounted Lincoln wrestled with one more paternal
figure--God the Father--to explain to himself, and to the nation,
why ending slavery had come at such a terrible price.
Bridging the rich and tumultuous period from the founding of the
United States to the Civil War, "Founders' Son" is unlike any
Lincoln biography to date. Penetrating in its insight, elegant in
its prose, and gripping in its vivid recreation of Lincoln's roving
mind at work, this book allows us to think anew about the first
hundred years of American history, and shows how we can, like
Lincoln, apply the legacy of the Founding Fathers to our
times.
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