Abraham Lincoln: A Complete Biography
GENRE - NON FICTION / BIOGRAPHY.
Finally!!! This book is over 😀.
By far the toughest book that I ever read, it took me 4 months almost to complete it during which a few times I found myself uninterested and almost put it down a couple of book was like history textbook of the American Civil War.I also got a feeling that this book may be a British perspective to the American Civil War since Lord Charnwood being British.
About the Book -
The author has done a great job explaining the politics of Lincoln's period, the build up towards the American Civil War focusing mainly on the reasons as to why the War took place. The book focused less on describing lincoln's childhood, adulthood, his love life, his courtship with Mary Todd, his relationship with his kid's and his bouts of depression.
What the book perfectly did was elaboratly explain Lincoln's relationship with his Colleague's, Peer's and men of prominent position during his rise to power, presidential nomination and campaign and tenure as the President of the United States of relationship with people like EDWARD STANTON, ULYSSES S. GRANT, WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD, ROBERT E L
Abraham Lincoln
Who Was Abraham Lincoln?
Abraham Lincoln was the 16thpresident of the United States, serving from to , and is regarded as one of America’s greatest heroes due to his roles in guiding the Union through the Civil War and working to emancipate enslaved people. His eloquent support of democracy and insistence that the Union was worth saving embody the ideals of self-government that all nations strive to achieve. In , he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves across the Confederacy. Lincoln’s rise from humble beginnings to achieving the highest office in the land is a remarkable story, and his death is equally notably. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in , at age 56, as the country was slowly beginning to reunify following the war. Lincoln’s distinctively humane personality and incredible impact on the nation have endowed him with an enduring legacy.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Abraham Lincoln
BORN: February 12,
DIED: April 15,
BIRTHPLACE: Hodgenville, Kentucky
SPOUSE: Mary Todd Lincoln (m. )
CHILDREN: Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Baker Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln, and Thomas “Tad” Lincoln
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Aquarius
HEIGHT: 6 fe
Six of the Top Recent Books on Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is the most written-about person in American history, and the third-most in world history—ranking below only Jesus and Napoleon. The deluge of books about the Great Emancipator has only increased with the bicentennial of his birth this year. Lists of the “essential” Lincoln books have been published, and one renowned Lincoln scholar has even suggested that a book be written on the worst, so readers will know which to avoid. In and into the first months of , many notable books on our 16th president have appeared, but some exceptional ones stand above the rest.
Lincoln’s presidential years have drawn more scholarly attention than the period before he entered the White House; some scholars argue that, despite the glut of biographies, much remains to be uncovered and examined about his early life. In July , Lewis E. Lehrman rescued one such segment of Lincoln’s life from the shadows with his masterful Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point, a study of Lincoln’s speech at Peoria, Illinois, in October , in response to Stephen A. Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Act that year. It marked Lincoln’s return to politics after a f
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is often described as America&#;s best – and most popular – president. Republicans and Democrats alike claim Honest Abe as their own. Yet we often forget that Lincoln was a complicated human being, and that his presidency was the most controversial in American history. After he was elected, seven southern states seceded in protest between and , effectively launching the Civil War. He was the commander-in-chief of the Union army during a war that took the lives of at least , Americans. He suspended the civil liberty of habeas corpus and instituted the first national military draft. Indeed, he was so controversial that after winning office, he had to sneak into Washington on a secret train to avoid a suspected assassination plot, and when he left, it was in a coffin, the victim of a Confederate sympathizer&#;s bullet.
American politicians like to cast themselves as &#;of-the-people,&#; but few have come from beginnings as humble as Lincoln&#;s. He was born on the Kentucky frontier in in a dirt-floor log cabin with one window, one door hung on leather hinges, and a primitive stick and mud chimney. He was tall, very tall. One of his good friends rem
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