Title
Abraham Lincoln : A Press Portrait / Herbert Mitgang.
ISBN
9780823295104
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2023]
Copyright
©2000
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (519 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780823295104 doi
Summary
This striking portrait of Abraham Lincoln found in this book is drawn entirely from the writing of his contemporaries and extends from his political beginnings in Springfield to his assassination. It reveals a more severely beleaguered, less godlike, and finally a richer Lincoln than has come through many of the biographies of Lincoln written at a distance after his death. To those who are familiar only with the various "retouched" versions of Lincoln's life, Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait will be a welcome-if sometimes surprising-addition to the literature surrounding the man who is perhaps the central figure in all of American history. The brutality, indeed that malignancy of some of the treatment Lincoln received at the hands of the press may well shock those readers who believe the second half of the twentieth century has a monopoly on the journalism of insult, outrage, and indignation. That Lincoln acted with the calm and clarity he did under the barrage of such attacks can only enhance his stature as one of the great political leaders of any nation at any time. Herbert Mitgang is author of several books, including Once upon a Time in New York, The Man Who Rode the Tiger, The Letters of Carl Sandburg, The Return, America at Random, and Working for the Reader.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)
Series
The North's Civil War
Available in Other Form
print 9780823220625
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION TO THE 2000 EDITION
SOURCES AND PUBLICATIONS
INTRODUCTION
1 THE YOUNG LINCOLN MARCH 1832-AUGUST 1846
2 CONGRESSMAN LINCOLN AUGUST 1846-OCTOBER 1854
3 THE GREAT DEBATER OCTOBER 1854-NOVEMBER 185
4 A NATIONAL MAN NOVEMBER 1858-MAY 1860
5 LINCOLN FOR PRESIDENT MAY 1860-MARCH 1861
6 PRESIDENT AT WAR MARCH 1861-APRIL 1862
7 THE EMANCIPATOR APRIL 1862-JANUARY 1863
8 COMMANDER IN CHIEF JANUARY 1863-JUNE 1864
9 THE SECOND TERM JUNE 1864-APRIL 14, 1865
10 AS THEY SAW HIM APRIL 15-MAY 1865
INDEX
