Author: John Milton CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
world, even as they violated principles for which they ostensibly stood. --
Jefferson, Lincoln, and Wilson
Author: John Milton CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
world, even as they violated principles for which they ostensibly stood. --
Great American presidents
Author: Lincoln Before Washington
Author: Douglas L. WilsonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066276
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"The provocative selections in this book address topics as disparate as William H. Herndon's informants, Lincoln's favorite poem, his mysterious broken engagement, the text of his debates with Douglas, and a previously unknown assault on Peter Cartwright. Although Abraham Lincoln's early years have come to be regarded as the wrong end of his life, Douglas L. Wilson's original and pathbreaking work makes the case that his prepresidential years offer bright prospects for investigation. Collectively, these essays challenge the general view of Lincoln scholars that William H. Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, is an unreliable source. They also provide a fresh look at some of the affinities between Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson."--Jacket.
Great American Presidents
Author: Wilhelm August DreyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Century of War, A
Author: John V. DensonPublisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 161016508X
Category : Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The horrors of the twentieth century could hardly have been predicted in the nineteenth century, which saw the eighteenth century end with the American Revolution bringing about the creation of the first classical liberal government in history. The twentieth century was the bloodiest in all history. More than 170 million people were killed by government with 10 million having been killed in World War I and 50 million killed in World War II. Of the 50 million killed in World War II, nearly 70 percent were innocent civilians.
Herndon on Lincoln
Author: William H. HerndonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097920
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
After Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, William H. Herndon began work on a brief, "subjective" biography of his former law partner, but his research turned up such unexpected and often startling information that it became a lifelong obsession. The biography finally published in 1889, Herndon's Lincoln, was a collaboration with Jesse W. Weik in which Herndon provided the materials and Weik did almost all the writing. For this reason, and because so much of what Herndon had to say about Lincoln was not included in the biography, David Donald has observed, "To understand Herndon's own rather peculiar approach to Lincoln biography, one must go back to his letters." An exhaustive collection of what Herndon was told by others about Lincoln was published by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis in Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln . In this new volume, Wilson and Davis have produced a comprehensive edition of what Herndon himself wrote about Lincoln in his own letters. Because of Herndon's close association with Lincoln, his intimate acquaintance with his partner's legal and political careers, and because he sought out informants who knew Lincoln and preserved information that might otherwise have been lost, his letters have become an indispensable resource for Lincoln biography. Unfiltered by a collaborator and rendered in Herndon's own distinctive voice, these letters constitute a matchless trove of primary source material. Herndon on Lincoln: Letters is a must for libraries, research institutions, and students of a towering American figure and his times.
Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Unfinished Work of the Nation
Author: Ronald L. HatzenbuehlerPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809334909
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This book describes the views of two of our nation's greatest presidents and explains how these views provide valuable insight into modern-day debates. The first extended examination of the ideas of both Lincoln and Jefferson, it provides readers with a succinct guide to their opinions that still resonate today.
Jefferson's Books
Author: Douglas L. WilsonPublisher: University of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781882886036
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A chronicle of Thomas Jefferson's passion for reading and building his library.
Woodrow Wilson and His Work
Author: William Edward DoddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Honor's Voice
Author: Douglas L. WilsonPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307765814
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln's remarkable emergence from the rural Midwest and his rise to the presidency have been the stuff of romance and legend. But as Douglas L. Wilson shows us in Honor's Voice, Lincoln's transformation was not one long triumphal march, but a process that was more than once seriously derailed. There were times, in his journey from storekeeper and mill operator to lawyer and member of the Illinois state legislature, when Lincoln lost his nerve and self-confidence - on at least two occasions he became so despondent as to appear suicidal - and when his acute emotional vulnerabilities were exposed. Focusing on the crucial years between 1831 and 1842, Wilson's skillful analysis of the testimonies and writings of Lincoln's contemporaries reveals the individual behind the legends. We see Lincoln as a boy: not the dutiful son studying by firelight, but the stubborn rebel determined to make something of himself. We see him as a young man: not the ascendant statesman, but the canny local politician who was renowned for his talents in wrestling and storytelling (as well as for his extensive store of off-color jokes). Wilson also reconstructs Lincoln's frequently anguished personal life: his religious skepticism, recurrent bouts of depression, and difficult relationships with women - from Ann Rutledge to Mary Owens to Mary Todd. Meticulously researched and well written, this is a fascinating book that makes us reexamine our ideas about one of the icons of American history.