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Herndon's Lincoln (Paperback)
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Herndon's Lincoln (Paperback)
Series: The Knox College Lincoln Studies Center
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William H. Herndon aspired to write a faithful portrait of his
friend and law partner, Abraham Lincoln, based on his own
observations and on hundreds of letters and interviews he had
compiled for the purpose. Even more important, he was determined to
present Lincoln as a man, rather than a saint, and to reveal things
that the prevailing Victorian conventions said should be left out
of the biography of a great national hero. A variety of obstacles
kept Herndon from writing his book, however, and not until he found
a collaborator in Jesse W. Weik did the biography begin to take
shape. It finally appeared in 1889, to decidedly mixed reviews.
Though controversial from the outset, Herndon's Lincoln nonetheless
established itself as a classic, and remains, as Don E.
Fehrenbacher declared, "the most influential biography of Lincoln
ever published." This new edition restores the original text,
includes two chapters added in the revised (1892) edition, and
traces the history of how Herndon and his collaborator, after many
delays, produced one of the landmark biographies in American
letters. Extensive annotation affords the reader a detailed look at
the biography's sources.
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