Lincoln As I Knew Him

Author : Harold Holzer
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 9781565126817
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lincoln as I Knew Him written by Harold Holzer and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters, diary entries, books, and speeches by those who knew him suggest Lincoln was a terrible dresser, loved bawdy jokes and stories, and was a push-over around children.

Author : John E. Washington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190270985
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Knew Lincoln written by John E. Washington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is a classic in African American history and Lincoln studies. Part memoir and part history, the book is an account of John E. Washington's childhood among African Americans in Washington, DC, and of the black people who knew or encountered Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. Washington recounted stories told by his grandmother's elderly friends--stories of escaping from slavery, meeting Lincoln in the Capitol, learning of the president's assassination, and hearing ghosts at Ford's Theatre. He also mined the US government archives and researched little-known figures in Lincoln's life, including William Johnson, who accompanied Lincoln from Springfield to Washington, and William Slade, the steward in Lincoln's White House. Washington was fascinated from childhood by the question of how much African Americans themselves had shaped Lincoln's views on slavery and race, and he believed Lincoln's Haitian-born barber, William de Fleurville, was a crucial influence. Washington also extensively researched Elizabeth Keckly, the dressmaker to Mary Todd Lincoln, and advanced a new theory of who helped her write her controversial book, Behind the Scenes, A new introduction by Kate Masur places Washington's book in its own context, explaining the contents of They Knew Lincoln in light of not only the era of emancipation and the Civil War, but also Washington's own times, when the nation's capital was a place of great opportunity and creativity for members of the African American elite. On publication, a reviewer noted that the "collection of Negro stories, memories, legends about Lincoln" seemed "to fill such an obvious gap in the material about Lincoln that one wonders why no one ever did it before." This edition brings it back to print for a twenty-first century readership that remains fascinated with Abraham Lincoln.

Author : Thomas J. Dilorenzo
Publisher : Forum Books
ISBN 13 : 030749652X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lincoln Unmasked written by Thomas J. Dilorenzo and published by Forum Books. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you were told that the revered leader Abraham Lincoln was actually a political tyrant who stifled his opponents by suppressing their civil rights? What if you learned that the man so affectionately referred to as the “Great Emancipator” supported white supremacy and pledged not to interfere with slavery in the South? Would you suddenly start to question everything you thought you knew about Lincoln and his presidency? You should. Thomas J. DiLorenzo, who ignited a fierce debate about Lincoln’s legacy with his book The Real Lincoln, now presents a litany of stunning new revelations that explode the most enduring (and pernicious) myths about our sixteenth president. Marshaling an astonishing amount of new evidence, Lincoln Unmasked offers an alarming portrait of a political manipulator and opportunist who bears little resemblance to the heroic, stoic, and principled figure of mainstream history. Did you know that Lincoln . . . • did NOT save the union? In fact, Lincoln did more than any other individual to destroy the voluntary union the Founding Fathers recognized. • did NOT want to free the slaves? Lincoln, who did not believe in equality of the races, wanted the Constitution to make slavery “irrevocable.” • was NOT a champion of the Constitution? Contrary to his high-minded rhetoric, Lincoln repeatedly trampled on the Constitution—and even issued an arrest warrant for the chief justice of the United States! • was NOT a great statesman? Lincoln was actually a warmonger who manipulated his own people into a civil war. • did NOT utter many of his most admired quotations? DiLorenzo exposes a legion of statements that have been falsely attributed to Lincoln for generations—usually to enhance his image. In addition to detailing Lincoln’s offenses against the principles of freedom, equality, and states’ rights, Lincoln Unmasked exposes the vast network of academics, historians, politicians, and other “gatekeepers” who have sanitized his true beliefs and willfully distorted his legacy. DiLorenzo reveals how the deification of Lincoln reflects a not-so-hidden agenda to expand the size and scope of the American state far beyond what the Founding Fathers envisioned—an expansion that Lincoln himself began. The hagiographers have shaped Lincoln’s image to the point that it has become more fiction than fact. With Lincoln Unmasked, DiLorenzo shows us an Abraham Lincoln without the rhetoric, lies, and political bias that have clouded a disastrous president’s enduring damage to the nation.

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553807420
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Lincoln's Hand written by Abraham Lincoln and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings includes images of a variety of handwritten speeches, letters, and childhood notebooks, accompanied by commentary by James M. McPherson, Ken Burns, Doris Kearns Goodwin, John Updike, Toni Morrison, and other notables.

Author : William E. Bartelt
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0871954435
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There I Grew Up written by William E. Bartelt and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1859 Abraham Lincoln covered his Indiana years in one paragraph and two sentences of a written autobiographical statement that included the following: "We reached our new home about the time the State came into the union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals in the woods. There I grew up." William E. Bartelt uses annotation and primary source material to tell the history of Lincoln's Indiana years by those who were there. The book reveals, through the words of those who knew him, Lincoln's humor, compassion, oratorical skills and thirst for knowledge, and it provides an overview of Lincoln's Indiana experiences, his family, the community where the Lincolns settled and southern Indiana from 1816 to 1830.

Author : Benjamin Rush Cowen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by Benjamin Rush Cowen and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Lee Miller
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400034167
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book President Lincoln written by William Lee Miller and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his acclaimed book Lincoln's Virtues, William Lee Miller explored Abraham Lincoln's intellectual and moral development. Now he completes his "ethical biography," showing how the amiable and inexperienced backcountry politician was transformed by constitutional alchemy into an oath-bound head of state. Faced with a radical moral contradiction left by the nation's Founders, Lincoln struggled to find a balance between the universal ideals of Equality and Liberty and the monstrous injustice of human slavery. With wit and penetrating sensitivity, Miller brings together the great themes that have become Lincoln's legacy—preserving the United States of America while ending the odious institution that corrupted the nation's meaning—and illuminates his remarkable presidential combination: indomitable resolve and supreme magnanimity.

Author : Philip B. Kunhardt
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 030726713X
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking for Lincoln written by Philip B. Kunhardt and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2008 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In honor of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth comes this sequel to the enormously successful "Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography." This work picks up where the previous book left off, and examines how the 16th president's legend came into being.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lincoln as Illinois Knew Him written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul M. Zall
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572335851
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abe Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter written by Paul M. Zall and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter, a substantial revision of P. M. Zall's 1982 classic, Abe Lincoln Laughing, consists of stories, jokes, and anecdotes on a wide range of topics by and about Abraham Lincoln before and after he became president. Establishing which tales are authentic and which are frauds and delusions, Abraham Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter includes stories derived from Lincoln's writings and speeches; writings by others up to April 1865; post-Civil War writings by those who knew him; and writings by others about Lincoln in later decades, including a sample from the twentieth century. Within each group, entries are arranged in the order they appeared in print. The volume contains notes, a bibliography, an index of the entries by section, and a subject index.