I am interested in Abraham Lincoln,can you tell me some books about him?
I am interested in Abraham Lincoln,can you tell me some books about him?
Christoper Hitchens' last collections of essays has several pieces on the founding fathers & other major figures. I found the one on Abe Lincoln's youth especially memorable; it discusses the cruelty imposed on him by his father, who treated him like slave. It's online:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...pation/307487/
Last edited by mal4mac; 10-03-2013 at 08:20 AM.
It's been a long time, but there's a great one that focuses on how his depression shaped his life and presidency. I believe it was called Lincoln's Melancholy. Very inspirational, especially if you're a fellow sufferer.
That's why the estrangement between them has growing up for the rest of thier lives.
Thank you for recommending.The load of the president is so huge,especially during the war.Originally Posted by hawthorns
I think Gore Vidal's Lincoln is the best book on Lincoln.
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein
Any novel (or essay, for that matter) by Gore Vidal makes for highly enjoyable reading!
As to the original question about books about Lincoln, there is an anecdote well-known within publishing circles about Bennett Cerf, the former head of Random House and frequent celebrity contestant on TV quiz shows in the 1950s. When told that books about Abraham Lincoln, doctors and dogs were the most popular (and therefore best-selling) topics, Cerf said he wished someone would write something entitled "Lincoln's Doctor's Dog." And what d'ya know, somebody did!:
http://www.unz.org/Pub/SaturdayRev-1...?View=PDFPages
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg. He condensed a 6 volume set of books on Lincoln into this sizable one volume treatment. I believe this book won the pulitzer prize.
BUCKLE UP!
there are so many books on lincoln it would probably take you years to read all of 'em...the doc's read his share, general literature chatters...the gore novel 'lincoln' has already been mentioned and the doc would put that in the pantheon for sure...read that and then follow it up w/ doris kearns goodwin's 'a team of rivals'...it's almost as if she took her outline from gore's book in the doc's opinion...well...anyways...you'll get a good flavor to how true vidal's novel is to the historical story...
hint: very true, general lit chatters...
the sandburg reading was quite dry...
if you take the doc's suggestion, after you finish those two books you won't be able to do anything but...
ROAR!
A small book I reach for now and again, is [I]Abraham Lincoln - Mystic Chords of Memory - A Selection From Lincoln's Writings"
It is a Book of the Month Club publication., edited by Larry Shapiro
I read Lincoln's Melancholy several years ago.
I thought it was a very good book.
Last edited by astrum; 11-29-2013 at 11:26 PM.
Rev. William E. Barton (1861-1930) was an early Lincoln biographer & wrote several books about him, including one about his religious beliefs: Lincoln's religiosity was severely challenged during his pres. campaigns. Trouble is Barton's books are probably hard to find in libraries, altho they're available @amazon.
No American troops were harmed during the Watergate cover-up.
I found a few (see link below) of Barton's monographs about Lincoln on Google Books.
https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&t...=bks&tbs=bkv:r
Last edited by astrum; 11-30-2013 at 03:36 AM.
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