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Reading With Lincoln (Hardcover)
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Reading With Lincoln (Hardcover)
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Through extensive reading and reflection, Abraham Lincoln fashioned
a mind as powerfully intellectual and superlatively communicative
as that of any other American political leader. "Reading with
Lincoln "uncovers the "how" of Lincoln's inspiring rise to
greatness by connecting the content of his reading to the story of
his life. At the core of Lincoln's success was his self-education,
centered on his love of and appreciation for learning through
books. From his early studies of grammar school handbooks and
children's classics to his interest in Shakespeare's "Macbeth" and
the Bible during his White House years, what Lincoln read helped to
define who he was as a person and as a politician. This unique
study delves into the books, pamphlets, poetry, plays, and essays
that influenced Lincoln's thoughts and actions. Exploring in great
depth and detail those readings that inspired the sixteenth
president, author Robert Bray follows Lincoln's progress closely,
from the young teen composing letters for illiterate friends and
neighbors to the politician who keenly employed what he read to
advance his agenda. Bray analyzes Lincoln's radical period in New
Salem, during which he came under the influence of Anglo-American
and French Enlightenment thinkers such as Thomas Paine, C. F.
Volney, and Voltaire, and he investigates Lincoln's appreciation of
nineteenth-century lyric poetry, which he both read and wrote. Bray
considers Lincoln's fascination with science, mathematics,
political economics, liberal social philosophy, theology, and the
Bible, and devotes special attention to Lincoln's enjoyment of
American humor. While striving to arrive at an understanding of the
role each subject played in the development of this remarkable
leader, Bray also examines the connections and intertextual
relations between what Lincoln read and how he wrote and spoke.
This comprehensive and long-awaited book provides fresh insight
into the self-made man from the wilderness of Illinois. Bray offers
a new way to approach the mind of the political artist who used his
natural talent, honed by years of rhetorical study and practice, to
abolish slavery and end the Civil War.
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