Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President And Fueled His Greatness - Hardcover

Shenk, Joshua Wolf

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618551166 ISBN 13: 9780618551163

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005

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A dramatic reassessment of the life and era of Abraham Lincoln argues that America's sixteenth president suffered from depression and explains how Lincoln used the ailment and the coping strategies he had developed to deal with the crises of the Civil War and personal tragedy. 35,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor:

JOSHUA WOLF SHENK is an essayist and independent scholar whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and in the national bestseller Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression. He has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, Mother Jones, and other publications. He has been a correspondent for the New Republic, the Economist, and U.S. News & World Report. A contributing editor to the Washington Monthly and a faculty member at New School University, Shenk serves on the advisory council of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and consulted on the History Channel’s film Lincoln. He lives in Brooklyn.

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• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0618551166
• ISBN 13: 9780618551163
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 350