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Herndon on Lincoln - Letters (Hardcover)
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Herndon on Lincoln - Letters (Hardcover)
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After Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, William H. Herndon
began work on a brief, "subjective" biography of his former law
partner, but his research turned up such unexpected and often
startling information that it became a lifelong obsession. The
biography finally published in 1889, Herndon's Lincoln, was a
collaboration with Jesse W. Weik in which Herndon provided the
materials and Weik did almost all the writing. For this reason, and
because so much of what Herndon had to say about Lincoln was not
included in the biography, David Donald has observed, "To
understand Herndon's own rather peculiar approach to Lincoln
biography, one must go back to his letters." An exhaustive
collection of what Herndon was told by others about Lincoln was
published by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis in Herndon's
Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham
Lincoln . In this new volume, Wilson and Davis have produced a
comprehensive edition of what Herndon himself wrote about Lincoln
in his own letters. Because of Herndon's close association with
Lincoln, his intimate acquaintance with his partner's legal and
political careers, and because he sought out informants who knew
Lincoln and preserved information that might otherwise have been
lost, his letters have become an indispensable resource for Lincoln
biography. Unfiltered by a collaborator and rendered in Herndon's
own distinctive voice, these letters constitute a matchless trove
of primary source material. Herndon on Lincoln: Letters is a must
for libraries, research institutions, and students of a towering
American figure and his times.
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