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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