Author: William Henry HerndonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This work is a biography of Lincoln, written by his law partner and close associate William Herndon.
Herndon's Lincoln
Author: William Henry HerndonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This work is a biography of Lincoln, written by his law partner and close associate William Herndon.
Abraham Lincoln
Author: William Henry HerndonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
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.
Lincoln's Herndon
Author: David DonaldPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447487893
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Herndon's Informants
Author: Douglas Lawson WilsonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252023286
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
For twenty-five years after the president's death William Herndon, his law partner, conducted interviews with and solicited letters from dozens of persons who knew Lincoln personally.
Herndon's Lincoln
Author: William Henry HerndonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Herndon's Lincoln
Author: William H. HerndonPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1605207284
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Written only 25 years after his death, this beloved biography of Abraham Lincoln offers something that most other studies of him do not: an intimate portrait constructed from the memories, experiences, and evidence of those who knew him. Lincoln's former law partner WILLIAM HENRY HERNDON (1818-1891) broke new journalistic ground when he insisted, in compiling this charming and insightful work, on gathering input from others who knew Lincoln well. Everything from old correspondence to new interviews Herndon conducted himself with such figures as Mary Todd Lincoln contribute to a personal look at the great man as a man, not as a myth. First published in 1889 across three small volumes, this replica edition collects the complete work into one book that will surprise and delight even those students of history who believe they know everything there is to know about Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln
Author: Allen C. GuelzoPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802842930
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
This biography of the sixteenth president explores Lincoln's life and political career along with insights into his philosophy, religious views, and moral character.
Abraham Lincoln in the Kitchen
Author: Rae Katherine EighmeyPublisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588344606
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln in the Kitchen is a culinary biography unlike any before. The very assertion of the title--that Abraham Lincoln cooked--is fascinating and true. It's an insight into the everyday life of one of our nation's favorite and most esteemed presidents and a way to experience flavors and textures of the past. Eighmey solves riddles such as what type of barbecue could be served to thousands at political rallies when paper plates and napkins didn't exist, and what gingerbread recipe could have been Lincoln's childhood favorite when few families owned cookie cutters and he could carry the cookies in his pocket. Through Eighmey's eyes and culinary research and experiments--including sleuthing for Lincoln's grocery bills in Springfield ledgers and turning a backyard grill into a cast-iron stove--the foods that Lincoln enjoyed, cooked, or served are translated into modern recipes so that authentic meals and foods of 1820-1865 are possible for home cooks. Feel free to pull up a chair to Lincoln's table.
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.