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Author : William Eleazar Barton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Man who Married Lincoln's Parents written by William Eleazar Barton and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes life of Jesse Head and data on marriage of Thomas LIncoln.
Author : William Eleazar Barton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Man who Married Lincoln's Parents written by William Eleazar Barton and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Burlingame
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643137352
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book An American Marriage written by Michael Burlingame and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Abraham Lincoln’s marriage to Mary Todd. Abraham Lincoln was apparently one of those men who regarded “connubial bliss” as an untenable fantasy. During the Civil War, he pardoned a Union soldier who had deserted the army to return home to wed his sweetheart. As the president signed a document sparing the soldier's life, Lincoln said: “I want to punish the young man—probably in less than a year he will wish I had withheld the pardon.” Based on thirty years of research, An American Marriage describes and analyzes why Lincoln had good reason to regret his marriage to Mary Todd. This revealing narrative shows that, as First Lady, Mary Lincoln accepted bribes and kickbacks, sold permits and pardons, engaged in extortion, and peddled influence. The reader comes to learn that Lincoln wed Mary Todd because, in all likelihood, she seduced him and then insisted that he protect her honor. Perhaps surprisingly, the 5’2” Mrs. Lincoln often physically abused her 6’4” husband, as well as her children and servants; she humiliated her husband in public; she caused him, as president, to fear that she would disgrace him publicly. Unlike her husband, she was not profoundly opposed to slavery and hardly qualifies as the “ardent abolitionist” that some historians have portrayed. While she providid a useful stimulus to his ambition, she often “crushed his spirit,” as his law partner put it. In the end, Lincoln may not have had as successful a presidency as he did—where he showed a preternatural ability to deal with difficult people—if he had not had so much practice at home.
Author : Douglas Lawson Wilson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252023286
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Herndon's Informants written by Douglas Lawson Wilson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : William Eleazar Barton
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The man who married Lincoln's parents, an address by Rev. William E. Barton ... Delivered at the dedication of a monument at the grave of Rev. Jesse Head and Jane Ramsey Head, his wife, in Spring Hill cemetery, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Thursday, November 2, 1922 written by William Eleazar Barton and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William E. Barton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483156623
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (566 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Married Lincoln's Parents: Delivered at the Dedication of a Monument at the Grave of REV. Jesse Head and Jane Ramsey Head, His Wife, in Sp written by William E. Barton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Man Who Married Lincoln's Parents: Delivered at the Dedication of a Monument at the Grave of Rev. Jesse Head and Jane Ramsey Head, His Wife, in Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Thursday, November 2, 1922 Far greater, however, is my obligation to Miss Mary A. Stephenson, whose prolonged and diligent search, in which she has been assisted by her sister, Miss Martha, has resulted in the recovery of virtually the whole his tory of Jesse Head, from 1810 to 1842; for in the former year, he removed from Washington county to Mercer and here in Harrodsburg he spent the last thirty-two years of his life. But for the labor of Miss Stephenson we should not be holding this celebration. Here Jesse Head's widow remained after his death until she also died. Their bodies at first were buried in the garden of his own home, but later were removed to this cemetery, where today we are erecting this memorial. It had been my hope that Miss Stephenson would consent to give to us today an account of the life and work of Jesse Head, particularly that part which he spent in Harrodsburg. She has declined this suggestion and I will not attempt to do what I hope she will yet do over her own signature. Let me, however, briefly outline the life of the man, whose grave we today are marking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : William E. Barton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330132173
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Married Lincoln's Parents written by William E. Barton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Man Who Married Lincoln's Parents: Delivered at the Dedication of a Monument at the Grave of Rev. Jesse Head and Jane Ramsey Head, His Wife, in Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Thursday, November 2, 1922 We are assembled in a place appointed for the burial of the dead, but we have not come to mourn. The man around whose grave we stand came to the end of his earthly life in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in its season. He had lived his three score years and ten and had continued four years longer upon borrowed time. His faithful wife, who sleeps by his side, lived until she was more than four score years of age. There was r.o occasion for bitter grief at the time of their death; they had lived their honest, virtuous and completed lives. Death had for them no terror, and the grief of those who remained behind was grief without a sting. Even if there had been sorrow at the time, and there appears to have been no occasion for it, there would be no reason for it now. It is more than eighty years since Jesse Head died. Mark Anthony at Caesar's funeral is supposed by Shakespeare to have said that he came to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Quite other is the case with us. We came not to bury Jesse Head, but to pay him a tribute of honor. We are assembled to unveil above the hitherto unmarked grave of Jesse Head and his wife a simple but dignified and durable monument that shall perpetuate the memory of the last resting place of these two simple but sincere and earnest servants of God. It is not the memory of a funeral that calls us together; it is rather a reminder of a wedding. That wedding was one of the many in which Jesse Head had a share. The court records of this county of Mercer, as well as those in Washington county, bear witness to the frequency with which he was called upon to solemnize marriages. The one we have in mind was at the time in no important respect different from the others. It was a backwoods wedding and it was celebrated after the usual boistrous fashion of such festivities, on the Beech Fork, in Washington county. The house in which the marriage occurred then stood in the name of Richard Berry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : William Henry Herndon
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Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by William Henry Herndon and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : WILLIAM E. BARTON
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ISBN 13 : 9781033531013
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)
Download or read book MAN WHO MARRIED LINCOLN'S PARENTS written by WILLIAM E. BARTON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Harvey Baker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393075680
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography written by Jean Harvey Baker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A striking success…the account of the White House years is absorbing, the account of Mary Lincoln's life as a widow utterly compelling." —New York Times This definitive biography of Mary Todd Lincoln beautifully conveys her tumultuous life and times. A privileged daughter of the proud clan that founded Lexington, Kentucky, Mary fell into a stormy romance with the raw Illinois attorney Abraham Lincoln. For twenty-five years the Lincolns forged opposing temperaments into a tolerant, loving marriage. Even as the nation suffered secession and civil war, Mary experienced the tragedies of losing three of her four children and then her husband. An insanity trial orchestrated by her surviving son led to her confinement in an asylum. Mary Todd Lincoln is still often portrayed in one dimension, as the stereotype of the best-hated faults of all women. Here her life is restored for us whole.
Author : Jason Emerson
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809327713
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (277 download)
Download or read book The Madness of Mary Lincoln written by Jason Emerson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, historian Jason Emerson discovered a steamer trunk formerly owned by Robert Todd Lincoln's lawyer and stowed in an attic for forty years. The trunk contained a rare find: twenty-five letters pertaining to Mary Todd Lincoln's life and insanity case, letters assumed long destroyed by the Lincoln family. Mary wrote twenty of the letters herself, more than half from the insane asylum to which her son Robert had her committed, and many in the months and years after. The Madness of Mary Lincoln is the first examination of Mary Lincoln’s mental illness based on the lost letters, and the first new interpretation of the insanity case in twenty years. This compelling story of the purported insanity of one of America’s most tragic first ladies provides new and previously unpublished materials, including the psychiatric diagnosis of Mary’s mental illness and her lost will. Emerson charts Mary Lincoln’s mental illness throughout her life and describes how a predisposition to psychiatric illness and a life of mental and emotional trauma led to her commitment to the asylum. The first to state unequivocally that Mary Lincoln suffered from bipolar disorder, Emerson offers a psychiatric perspective on the insanity case based on consultations with psychiatrist experts. This book reveals Abraham Lincoln’s understanding of his wife’s mental illness and the degree to which he helped keep her stable. It also traces Mary’s life after her husband’s assassination, including her severe depression and physical ailments, the harsh public criticism she endured, the Old Clothes Scandal, and the death of her son Tad. The Madness of Mary Lincoln is the story not only of Mary, but also of Robert. It details how he dealt with his mother’s increasing irrationality and why it embarrassed his Victorian sensibilities; it explains the reasons he had his mother committed, his response to her suicide attempt, and her plot to murder him. It also shows why and how he ultimately agreed to her release from the asylum eight months early, and what their relationship was like until Mary’s death. This historical page-turner provides readers for the first time with the lost letters that historians had been in search of for eighty years. Univeristy Press Books for Public and Secondary Schools 2013 edition
Author : Daniel Cravens Taylor
Publisher : Beacon Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Thomas Lincoln written by Daniel Cravens Taylor and published by Beacon Publishing Group. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of books have been written (and are still being written) about Abraham Lincoln. But in the annals of Lincoln history, Thomas Lincoln, Abraham’s father, is a largely neglected figure. He rates a few paragraphs in an otherwise large biography and has served as a quick backdrop to the birth and childhood of our sixteenth president. Early Lincoln biography did not consider Thomas worthy of much mention. William Herndon set the pattern for how Thomas has been viewed historically. Thomas was seen as “roving and shiftless”, lazy beyond repair. Thomas was said to be uneducated and against education. He was portrayed as mentally and physically slow, “careless, inert, and dull”. He was the obstacle Abraham overcame to become great. That view of Thomas Lincoln is wrong. Thomas was not dull or inert or lazy. He lived in a different path from that chosen by his illustrious son but he was not an obstacle his son had to overcome. Because of this view, many will consider this volume to be revisionist history. In a sense, it is. It will revise the standard view of Thomas based on the historical record available and place him as he was in the events and time in which he lived. However, it is not revisionist in the negative sense that wording often suggests. It is not built from twisting events or rewriting timeframes to make history into something it was not. Thomas Lincoln: Abraham’s Father will correct the old and errant understanding of Thomas Lincoln and show him the man he truly was. It will not enlarge him into something he was not nor will it lower him to be what many have thought him. Lincoln history has a gap in not having the story of Thomas Lincoln readily available. Hopefully this volume will open the doors to taking a new and serious look at the father who raised and shaped Abraham Lincoln’s early life.
Author : William Eleazar Barton
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Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Parents of Abraham Lincoln written by William Eleazar Barton and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Herbert Donald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439126283
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Lincoln written by David Herbert Donald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency. Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by civil war. Donald goes beyond biography, illuminating the gradual development of Lincoln’s character, chronicling his tremendous capacity for evolution and growth, thus illustrating what made it possible for a man so inexperienced and so unprepared for the presidency to become a great moral leader. In the most troubled of times, here was a man who led the country out of slavery and preserved a shattered Union—in short, one of the greatest presidents this country has ever seen.
Author : William Eleazar Barton
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Paternity of Abraham Lincoln written by William Eleazar Barton and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jason Emerson
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ISBN 13 : 0809336758
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Mary Lincoln for the Ages written by Jason Emerson and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping analytical bibliography, Jason Emerson goes beyond the few sources usually employed to contextualize Mary Lincoln's life and thoroughly reexamines nearly every word ever written about her. In doing so, this book becomes the prime authority on Mary Lincoln, points researchers to key underused sources, reveals how views about her have evolved over the years, and sets the stage for new questions and debates about the themes and controversies that have defined her legacy. Mary Lincoln for the Ages first articulates how reliance on limited sources has greatly restricted our understanding of the subject, evaluating their flaws and benefits and pointing out the shallowness of using the same texts to study her life. Emerson then presents more than four hundred bibliographical entries of nonfiction books and pamphlets, scholarly and popular articles, journalism, literature, and juvenilia. More than just listings of titles and publication dates, each entry includes Emerson's deft analysis of these additional works on Mary Lincoln that should be used--but rarely have been--to better understand who she was during her life and why we see her as we do. The volume also includes rarely used illustrations, including some that have never before appeared in print. A roadmap for a firmer, more complete grasp of Mary Lincoln's place in the historical record, this is the first and only extensive, analytical bibliography of the subject. In highlighting hundreds of overlooked sources, Emerson changes the paradigm of Mary Lincoln's legacy.
Author : Michael Burlingame
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066672
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (666 download)
Download or read book The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln written by Michael Burlingame and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based primarily on long-neglected manuscript and newspaper sources--and especially on reminiscences of people who knew him--this psychobiography casts new light on Lincoln. Burlingame uses a blend of Freudian and Jungian theory to interpret the psyche of the 16th president.
