Product Details:
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky (October 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813121418
ISBN-13: 978-0813121413
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
Even though Abraham Lincoln has been the subject of numerous biographies, his personality remains an enigma autocad 2012 book free. For the 1860 presidential race he prepared two sketches of his life autocad 2012 book free. These brief campaign portraits provide the core around which Paul Zall weaves extracts from correspondence, speeches, and interviews to produce an in-depth biography autocad 2012 book free. These descriptions from Lincoln’s speeches and correspondence offer a window into his soul and mind autocad 2012 book free. Lincoln’s own words reveal an emotional evolution typically submerged in political biographies. They explain, to a degree not previously understood, the great mystery of his life: the process through which he matured from laborer to store clerk to country lawyer to our greatest president. Of the various internal struggles that plagued him throughout this evolution, perhaps the most compelling is his attempt to reconcile his conscience with the rule of the Constitution. Zall frames Lincoln’s words with his own illuminating commentary, providing a continuous, compelling narrative. Beginning with Lincoln’s thoughts on his parents, the story moves though his youth and early successes and failures in law and politics, and culminates in his clashes and conflicts—internal as well as external—as president of a divided country. Abraham Lincoln was not the kind of person to bare his soul in public or in private. “Even between ourselves,” lamented Mary Todd Lincoln, “his expressions were few.” Paul Zall has created the autobiography Lincoln never had the chance to write.
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