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Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president,
Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume
biography has been masterfully abridged and revised. Sixteenth
president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a
surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, freedom, and
democracy, Abraham Lincoln is arguably the most studied and admired
of all Americans. Michael Burlingame's astonishing Abraham Lincoln:
A Life, an updated, condensed version of the 2,000-page two-volume
set that The Atlantic hailed as one of the five best books of 2009,
offers fresh interpretations of this endlessly fascinating American
leader. Based on deep research in unpublished sources as well as
newly digitized sources, this work reveals how Lincoln's character
and personality were the North's secret weapon in the Civil War,
the key variables that spelled the difference between victory and
defeat. He was a model of psychological maturity and a fully
individuated man whose influence remains unrivaled in the history
of American public life. Burlingame chronicles Lincoln's childhood
and early development, romantic attachments and losses, his love of
learning, legal training, and courtroom career as well as his
political ambition, his term as congressman in the late 1840s, and
his serious bouts of depression in early adulthood. Burlingame
recounts, in fresh detail, the Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln
marriage and traces the mounting moral criticism of slavery that
revived his political career and won this Springfield lawyer the
presidency in 1860. This abridgement delivers Burlingame's
signature insight into Lincoln as a young man, a father, and a
politician. Lincoln speaks to us not only as a champion of freedom,
democracy, and national unity but also as a source of inspiration.
Few have achieved his historical importance, but many can profit
from his personal example, encouraged by the knowledge that despite
a lifetime of troubles, he became a model of psychological
maturity, moral clarity, and unimpeachable integrity. His presence
and his leadership inspired his contemporaries; his life story will
do the same for generations to come.
In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be
published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a
fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents.
Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with
decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and
long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and
reinforce current understanding of America's sixteenth president.
In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's presidency and the
trials of the Civil War. He supplies fascinating details on the
crisis over Fort Sumter and the relentless office seekers who
plagued Lincoln. He introduces readers to the president's battles
with hostile newspaper editors and his quarrels with incompetent
field commanders. Burlingame also interprets Lincoln's private
life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd, the untimely death of
his son Willie to disease in 1862, and his recurrent anguish over
the enormous human costs of the war.
In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be
published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a
fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents.
Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with
decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and
long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and
reinforce our current understanding of America's sixteenth
president. Volume 1 covers Lincoln's early childhood, his
experiences as a farm boy in Indiana and Illinois, his legal
training, and the political ambition that led to a term in Congress
in the 1840s. In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's life
during his presidency and the Civil War, narrating in fascinating
detail the crisis over Fort Sumter and Lincoln's own battles with
relentless office seekers, hostile newspaper editors, and
incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also offers new
interpretations of Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage
to Mary Todd and the untimely deaths of two sons to disease. But
through it all - his difficult childhood, his contentious political
career, a fratricidal war, and tragic personal losses - Lincoln
preserved a keen sense of humor and acquired a psychological
maturity that proved to be the North's most valuable asset in
winning the Civil War. Published to coincide with the 200th
anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this landmark publication
establishes Burlingame as the most assiduous Lincoln biographer of
recent memory and brings Lincoln alive to modern readers as never
before.
Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the
black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the
prejudice of his times and country." This narrative history of
Lincoln's personal interchange with Black people over the course
his career reveals a side of the sixteenth president that, until
now, has not been fully explored or understood. In a little-noted
eulogy delivered shortly after Lincoln's assassination, Frederick
Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black
man's president," the "first to show any respect for their rights
as men." To justify that description, Douglass pointed not just to
Lincoln's official acts and utterances, like the Emancipation
Proclamation or the Second Inaugural Address, but also to the
president's own personal experiences with Black people. Referring
to one of his White House visits, Douglass said: "In daring to
invite a Negro to an audience at the White House, Mr. Lincoln was
saying to the country: I am President of the black people as well
as the white, and I mean to respect their rights and feelings as
men and as citizens." But Lincoln's description as "emphatically
the black man's president" rests on more than his relationship with
Douglass or on his official words and deeds. Lincoln interacted
with many other African Americans during his presidency His
unfailing cordiality to them, his willingness to meet with them in
the White House, to honor their requests, to invite them to consult
on public policy, to treat them with respect whether they were
kitchen servants or leaders of the Black community, to invite them
to attend receptions, to sing and pray with them in their
neighborhoods-all those manifestations of an egalitarian spirit
fully justified the tributes paid to him by Frederick Douglass and
other African Americans like Sojourner Truth, who said: "I never
was treated by any one with more kindness and cordiality than were
shown to me by that great and good man, Abraham Lincoln." Historian
David S. Reynolds observed recently that only by examining
Lincoln's "personal interchange with Black people do we see the
complete falsity of the charges of innate racism that some have
leveled against him over the years."
An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the
sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic
story of Abraham Lincoln's marriage to Mary Todd. Abraham Lincoln
was apparently one of those men who regarded "connubial bliss" as
an untenable fantasy. During the Civil War, he pardoned a Union
soldier who had deserted the army to return home to wed his
sweetheart. As the president signed a document sparing the
soldier's life, Lincoln said: "I want to punish the young
man-probably in less than a year he will wish I had withheld the
pardon." Based on thirty years of research, An American Marriage
describes and analyzes why Lincoln had good reason to regret his
marriage to Mary Todd. This revealing narrative shows that, as
First Lady, Mary Lincoln accepted bribes and kickbacks, sold
permits and pardons, engaged in extortion, and peddled influence.
The reader comes to learn that Lincoln wed Mary Todd because, in
all likelihood, she seduced him and then insisted that he protect
her honor. Perhaps surprisingly, the 5'2" Mrs. Lincoln often
physically abused her 6'4" husband, as well as her children and
servants; she humiliated her husband in public; she caused him, as
president, to fear that she would disgrace him publicly. Unlike her
husband, she was not profoundly opposed to slavery and hardly
qualifies as the "ardent abolitionist" that some historians have
portrayed. While she provided a useful stimulus to his ambition,
she often "crushed his spirit," as his law partner put it. In the
end, Lincoln may not have had as successful a presidency as he
did-where he showed a preternatural ability to deal with difficult
people-if he had not had so much practice at home.
Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black
Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the
same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's
image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and
Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views
on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass,
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Thurgood Marshall,
Malcolm X, Gwendolyn Brooks, Barbara Jeanne Fields, Barack Obama,
and dozens of others. The selections move from speeches to letters
to book excerpts, mapping the changing contours of the
bond--emotional and intellectual--between Lincoln and Black
Americans over the span of one hundred and fifty years. A
comprehensive and valuable reader, Knowing Him by Heart examines
Lincoln's still-evolving place in Black American thought.
Univeristy Press Books for Public and Secondary Schools 2013
edition Superior Achievement by the Illinois State Historical
Society, 2013 Throughout his twenty-three-year legal career,
Abraham Lincoln spent nearly as much time on the road as an
attorney for the Eighth Judicial Circuit as he did in his hometown
of Springfield, Illinois. Yet most historians gloss over the time
and instead have Lincoln emerge fully formed as a skillful
politician in 1858. In this innovative volume, Guy C. Fraker
provides the first-ever study of Lincoln’s professional and
personal home away from home and demonstrates how the Eighth
Judicial Circuit and its people propelled Lincoln to the
presidency. Each spring and fall, Lincoln traveled to as many
as fourteen county seats in the Eighth Judicial Circuit to appear
in consecutive court sessions over a ten- to twelve-week
period. Fraker describes the people and counties that
Lincoln encountered, discusses key cases Lincoln handled, and
introduces the important friends he made, friends who eventually
formed the team that executed Lincoln’s nomination strategy at
the Chicago Republican Convention in 1860 and won him the
presidential nomination. Â As Fraker shows, the Eighth
Judicial Circuit provided the perfect setting for the growth and
ascension of Lincoln. A complete portrait of the sixteenth
president depends on a full understanding of his experience on the
circuit, and Lincoln’s Ladder to the Presidency provides that
understanding as well as a fresh perspective on the much-studied
figure, thus deepening our understanding of the roots of his
political influence and acumen.
From the legendary Lincoln scholar Wayne C. Temple comes the
long-awaited full-length biography of Noah Brooks, the influential
Illinois journalist who championed Abraham Lincoln in Illinois
state politics and became his almost daily companion at the White
House. Best remembered as one of the president's few true
intimates, Brooks was also a nationally recognized man of letters,
who mingled with the likes of Mark Twain and Bret Harte. Temple
draws on archives and papers long thought lost to re-create
Brooks's colorful life and relationship with Lincoln. Brooks's
closeness to the president made him privy to Lincoln's thoughts on
everything from literature to spirituality. Their frank
conversations contributed to the wealth of journalism and personal
observations that would make Brooks's writings a much-quoted source
for historians and biographers of Lincoln. A carefully researched
and well-documented scholarly resource, Lincoln's Confidant is the
story of an extraordinary friendship by one of the luminaries of
Lincoln scholarship.
An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the
sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic
story of Abraham Lincoln's marriage to Mary Todd. Abraham Lincoln
was apparently one of those men who regarded "connubial bliss" as
an untenable fantasy. During the Civil War, he pardoned a Union
soldier who had deserted the army to return home to wed his
sweetheart. As the president signed a document sparing the
soldier's life, Lincoln said: "I want to punish the young
man-probably in less than a year he will wish I had withheld the
pardon." Based on thirty years of research, An American Marriage
describes and analyzes why Lincoln had good reason to regret his
marriage to Mary Todd. This revealing narrative shows that, as
First Lady, Mary Lincoln accepted bribes and kickbacks, sold
permits and pardons, engaged in extortion, and peddled influence.
The reader comes to learn that Lincoln wed Mary Todd because, in
all likelihood, she seduced him and then insisted that he protect
her honor. Perhaps surprisingly, the 5'2" Mrs. Lincoln often
physically abused her 6'4" husband, as well as her children and
servants; she humiliated her husband in public; she caused him, as
president, to fear that she would disgrace him publicly. Unlike her
husband, she was not profoundly opposed to slavery and hardly
qualifies as the "ardent abolitionist" that some historians have
portrayed. While she provided a useful stimulus to his ambition,
she often "crushed his spirit," as his law partner put it. In the
end, Lincoln may not have had as successful a presidency as he
did-where he showed a preternatural ability to deal with difficult
people-if he had not had so much practice at home.
Originally published in 1922, "The Real Lincoln" is an in-depth
look at Abraham Lincoln the man, not the public figure. Acclaimed
at the time as an excellent, impartial source book, "The Real
Lincoln" was compiled by Jesse W. Weik through a series of letters
and interviews with people who knew the sixteenth president
personally as well as their descendents. This is an examination of
Lincoln without the weight of history, looking at him as a dynamic
figure and illuminating aspects of his life before his presidency.
His childhood, his marriage to Mary Todd, his law practice, the way
he spent his free time, and his introduction to politics are just
some of the subjects covered. In this latest edition of "The Real
Lincoln," Michael Burlingame has included dozens of original
letters and interviews received by Weik between 1892 and 1922 that
went into creating this work. Occasionally lighthearted and always
insightful, this revealing book will enthrall anyone curious about
the human side of the man too often viewed as a monument.
William O. Stoddard's memoirs as President Abraham Lincoln's third
secretary reveal a perspective of the president rarely viewed. In
this collection of 120 weekly dispatches submitted to the New York
"Examiner" under the pseudonym "Illinois," Stoddard sheds new light
on Lincoln and his era. These documents provide commentary on
Lincoln's personal circumstances as well as events in Washington
and on military, diplomatic, economic, and political developments.
Although historians at times differ with Stoddard's accounts, he
offers valuable descriptions of Lincoln, insight into the
president's thoughts, and commentary on contemporary opinion.
Of the three secretaries who assisted President Abraham
Lincoln--John G. Nicolay, John Hay, and William O. Stoddard--only
Stoddard wrote an extended memoir about his time in the Executive
Mansion. First published in 1890, the book vividly depicts the
president's agonizing reaction to the defeats at Fredericksburg and
Chancellorsville, the difficulties encountered (and presented) by
Mary Lincoln, the president's relations with George B. McClellan
and other generals, and the anxiety preceding the Merrimack's epic
battle with the Monitor. In 1866 Stoddard also penned thirteen
"White House Sketches" about his time in Lincoln's service.
Originally published in an obscure New York newspaper, these
essays--never previously collected--supplement Stoddard's memoir.
Together the memoir and sketches provide an intimate look at the
sixteenth president during a time of crisis.
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