Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life
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Publisher Description
*Includes a table of contents
*Illustrated with images of Lincoln throughout his life
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country’s most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the “Westerner” who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before becoming the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln successfully navigated the Union through the Civil War but didn’t live to witness his own accomplishment, becoming the first president assassinated when he was killed at Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
Herndon’s Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life was authored by William Herndon (along with Jesse Weik) , Lincoln’s friend and law partner. He sought to reveal a more “real” version of Lincoln than the biography written by John George Nicolay and John Milton Hay.
This edition of Herndon’s Lincoln includes pictures of Lincoln throughout his life, and a table of contents for easier navigation.
Customer Reviews
The Best Lincoln Biography
Without a doubt, the finest Lincoln biography available. This book should be required reading by all students prior to graduating high school and by all who wish to become naturalized citizens of this country.
This books details the life of a man; describing the man in detail. This book gives equal time to those traits of Lincoln which might be considered faults, but are integral in learning about the man and not the myth.
I know of no other person whose actual character and internal fortitude actually exceed the myths that have grown around the person.
Reading this book a person will go from having great respect for Mr. Lincoln to being a huge admirer of the man. Reading this book one will learn what a priceless treasure we lost as a nation, and one can only wonder at how much differently the reconstruction would have gone after the war and how Mr. Lincoln would have helped to heal the divisive wounds and feelings after the war.
The plight of both the newly freed black slaves and citizens of the former Confederacy would have been much better with Mr. Lincoln leading the reform efforts.