Lincoln As I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes, and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies - Hardcover

Holzer, Harold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 156512166X ISBN 13: 9781565121669

Verlag: Algonquin Books, 1999

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Book by Holzer Harold

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Sifting through letters, diary entries, books, and speeches for information about Lincoln the man, the author unearthed evidence that he was a terrible dresser, loved baudy jokes and stories, and was a push-over around children.

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What was Lincoln really like?

Depends on whom you ask...

Here are first-hand recollections from the famous (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne) to the not-so-famous to the downright infamous (John Wilkes Booth).

Military men on Lincoln's leadership: "The President is nothing more than a well meaning baboon."

--General George McClellan

Journalists on Lincoln's character: "No man living has a kinder heart."

--Noah Brooks

Artists on Lincoln's appearance: "Mr. Lincoln had the saddest face I ever attempted to paint."

--Francis Bicknell Carpenter

Lady friends on Lincoln's courtship manners: "Mr. Lincoln was deficient in those little links which make up the great chain of womans happiness."

--Mary Owens

Advance Praise for Lincoln As I Knew Him:

"Inspiring ... A collection that sheds light not only on Lincoln but also on his times."

--Publisher's Weekly

"A pleasing admixture of the strange and the familiar, of poignance and humor, of iron and irony."

--Kirkus Reviews

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• Verlag: Algonquin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 156512166X
• ISBN 13: 9781565121669
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 269