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Author : E. Hingeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781432803735
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Character and Greatness of Abraham Lincoln written by E. Hingeley and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ezra 1825-1892 Hingeley
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781361515884
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (158 download)
Download or read book CHARACTER & GREATNESS OF ABRAH written by Ezra 1825-1892 Hingeley and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : David Von Drehle
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 080507970X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Rise to Greatness written by David Von Drehle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Von Drehle has chosen a critical year ('the most eventful year in American history' and the year Lincoln rose to greatness), done his homework, and written a spirited account."N"Publishers Weekly."
Author : E. Hingeley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267277230
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (772 download)
Download or read book The Character and Greatness of Abraham Lincoln: A Discourse, Delivered April 23, 1865 (Classic Reprint) written by E. Hingeley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Character and Greatness of Abraham Lincoln: A Discourse, Delivered April 23, 1865 Is the name of Abraham Lincoln worthy of being enrolled upon the catalogue of great men We affirm it is, and might argue that. 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 : Joshua Wolf Shenk
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054752689X
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Lincoln's Melancholy written by Joshua Wolf Shenk and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-10-02 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nuanced psychological portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles. Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk’s Lincoln’s Melancholy reveals how this illness influenced both the President’s character and his leadership. Mired in personal suffering as a young man, Lincoln forged a hard path toward mental health. Shenk draws on seven years of research from historical record, interviews with Lincoln scholars, and contemporary research on depression to understand the nature of Lincoln’s unhappiness. In the process, Shenk discovers that the President’s coping strategies—among them, a rich sense of humor and a tendency toward quiet reflection—ultimately helped him to lead the nation through its greatest turmoil. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post Book World, Atlanta Journal-Constituion, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette As Featured on the History Channel documentary Lincoln “Fresh, fascinating, provocative.”—Sanford D. Horwitt, San Francisco Chronicle “Some extremely beautiful prose and fine political rhetoric and leaves one feeling close to Lincoln, a considerable accomplishment.”—Andrew Solomon, New York Magazine “A profoundly human and psychologically important examination of the melancholy that so pervaded Lincoln's life.”—Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., author of An Unquiet Mind
Author : Michael Anderegg
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700632654
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Lincoln and Shakespeare written by Michael Anderegg and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the measure of Shakespeare's poetic greatness, an early commentator remarked, that he thoroughly blended the ideal with the practical or realistic. “If this be so,” Walt Whitman wrote, "I should say that what Shakespeare did in poetic expression, Abraham Lincoln essentially did in his personal and official life." Whitman was only one of many to note the affinity between these two iconic figures. Novelists, filmmakers, and playwrights have frequently shown Lincoln quoting Shakespeare. In Lincoln and Shakespeare, Michael Anderegg for the first time examines in detail Lincoln’s fascination with and knowledge of Shakespeare’s plays. Separated by centuries and extraordinary circumstances, the two men clearly shared a belief in the power of language and both at times held a fatalistic view of human nature. While citations from Shakespeare are few in his writings and speeches, Lincoln read deeply and quoted often from the Bard's work in company, a habit well documented in diaries, letters, and newspapers. Anderegg discusses Lincoln’s particular interest in Macbeth and Hamlet and in Shakespeare’s historical plays, where we see themes that resonated deeply with the president—the dangers of inordinate ambition, the horrors of civil war, and the corruptions of illegitimate rule. Anderegg winnows confirmed evidence from myth to explore how Lincoln came to know Shakespeare, which editions he read, and which plays he would have seen before he became president. Once in the White House, Lincoln had the opportunity of seeing the best Shakespearean actors in America. Anderegg details Lincoln's unexpected relationship with James H. Hackett, one of the most popular comic actors in America at the time: his letter to Hackett reveals his considerable enthusiasm for Shakespeare. Lincoln managed, in the midst of overwhelming matters of state, to see the actor's Falstaff on several occasions and to engage with him in discussions of how Shakespeare’s plays should be performed, a topic on which he had decided views. Hackett's productions were only a few of those Lincoln enjoyed as president, and Anderegg documents his larger theater-going experience, recreating the Shakespearean performances of Edwin Booth, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Forrest, and others, as Lincoln saw them.
Author : Robert Mayne Patterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Character of Abraham Lincoln written by Robert Mayne Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Dickinson Sheppard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln, a Character Sketch written by Robert Dickinson Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Dickinson Sheppard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by Robert Dickinson Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel W. Belford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Character and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln written by Samuel W. Belford and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph R. Fornieri
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809333309
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman written by Joseph R. Fornieri and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2015 ISHS Superior Achievement Award What constitutes Lincoln’s political greatness as a statesman? As a great leader, he saved the Union, presided over the end of slavery, and helped to pave the way for an interracial democracy. His great speeches provide enduring wisdom about human equality, democracy, free labor, and free society. Joseph R. Fornieri contends that Lincoln’s political genius is best understood in terms of a philosophical statesmanship that united greatness of thought and action, one that combined theory and practice. This philosophical statesmanship, Fornieri argues, can best be understood in terms of six dimensions of political leadership: wisdom, prudence, duty, magnanimity, rhetoric, and patriotism. Drawing on insights from history, politics, and philosophy, Fornieri tackles the question of how Lincoln’s statesmanship displayed each of these crucial elements. Providing an accessible framework for understanding Lincoln’s statesmanship, this thoughtful study examines the sixteenth president’s political leadership in terms of the traditional moral vision of statecraft as understood by epic political philosophers such as Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. Fornieri contends that Lincoln’s character is best understood in terms of Aquinas’s understanding of magnanimity or greatness of soul, the crowning virtue of statesmanship. True political greatness, as embodied by Lincoln, involves both humility and sacrificial service for the common good. The enduring wisdom and timeless teachings of these great thinkers, Fornieri shows, can lead to a deeper appreciation of statesmanship and of its embodiment in Abraham Lincoln. With the great philosophers and books of western civilization as his guide, Fornieri demonstrates the important contribution of normative political philosophy to an understanding of our sixteenth president. Informed by political theory that draws on the classics in revealing the timelessness of Lincoln’s example, his interdisciplinary study offers profound insights for anyone interested in the nature of leadership, statesmanship, political philosophy, political ethics, political history, and constitutional law.
Author : Henry Bascom Rankin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Intimate Character Sketches of Abraham Lincoln written by Henry Bascom Rankin and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen Nicolay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln written by Helen Nicolay and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William M. Thayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Character and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States written by William M. Thayer and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diana Schaub
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250763460
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)
Download or read book His Greatest Speeches written by Diana Schaub and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert analysis of Abraham Lincoln's three most powerful speeches reveals his rhetorical genius and his thoughts on our national character. Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, believed that our national character was defined by three key moments: the writing of the Constitution, our declaration of independence from England, and the beginning of slavery on the North American continent. His thoughts on these landmarks can be traced through three speeches: the Lyceum Address, the Gettysburg Address, and the Second Inaugural. The latter two are well-known, enshrined forever on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial. The former is much less familiar to most, written a quarter century before his presidency, when he was a 28 year-old Illinois state legislator. In His Greatest Speeches, Professor Diana Schaub offers a brilliant line-by-line analysis of these timeless works, placing them in historical context and explaining the brilliance behind their rhetoric. The result is a complete vision of Lincoln’s worldview that is sure to fascinate and inspire general readers and history buffs alike. This book is a wholly original resource for considering the difficult questions of American purpose and identity, questions that are no less contentious or essential today than they were over two hundred years ago.
Author : William M. Thayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337923013
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Character and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln written by William M. Thayer and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen Nicolay
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508796688
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (966 download)
Download or read book Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln written by Helen Nicolay and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 crowning achievement, becoming the first president assassinated when he was shot at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. In the generation after the Civil War, Lincoln became an American deity and one of the most written about men in history. With such a sterling reputation, even historians hesitate to write a critical word; in Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin casts Lincoln as an almost superhuman puppet master in control of his Cabinet's political machinations and the war's direction, juggling the balancing act flawlessly. As a result, Lincoln the man is far less known than Lincoln the myth. From the intro:"To make claim of superhuman goodness or wisdom or ability for Abraham Lincoln is to belittle him —to detract from the dignity of his life and the inspiration of his example. The reason his name is on every lip, and that the sound of it warms every heart, is that he was so human, yet lived on a higher plane than his fellows. That he freed an enslaved race and brought a long and bitter war to an end is impressive, but not vital to his greatness. The fact that counts, is that he passed through every stage of his marvelous career, from laboring man to ruler with more than imperial power, serenely constant to one inflexible standard of right — never arrogant and never abashed, just in act, and in sympathy a brother to mankind.Some men, born with the gift of wit, lack judgment, or persistent energy. Others, dowered with unusual sagacity, are hampered by a cold earnestness which repels confidence. Still others, afflicted with blind unreasoning energy, blunder perpetually into destructive acts of courage and daring. Lincoln had these qualities in happy combination wit to attract and hold men, logical sense and clear vision to plan methodical action; and, best of all, that high courage which, when the golden moment came, inspired him to bold and fearless action, regardless of what others thought and careless of consequences to himself."
