"William H. Herndon aspired to write a faithful portrait of his friend and law partner, Abraham Lincoln, based on his own observations and on hundreds of letters and interviews he had compiled for the purpose. Even more important, he was determined to present Lincoln as a man, rather than a sai...

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Hauptverfasser:	Herndon, William Henry 1818-1891 (VerfasserIn), Weik, Jesse W. 1857-1930 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Wilson, Douglas Lawson 1935- (HerausgeberIn), Davis, Rodney O. 1932- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Urbana ; Chicago Knox College Lincoln Studies Center and University of Illinois Press [2006]
Schriftenreihe:	The Knox College Lincoln studies center series
Schlagworte:	Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 Biografie
Zusammenfassung:	"William H. Herndon aspired to write a faithful portrait of his friend and law partner, Abraham Lincoln, based on his own observations and on hundreds of letters and interviews he had compiled for the purpose. Even more important, he was determined to present Lincoln as a man, rather than a saint, and to reveal things that the prevailing Victorian conventions said should be left out of the biography of a great national hero. A variety of obstacles kept Herndon from writing his book, however, and not until he found a collaborator in Jesse W. Weik did the biography begin to take shape. It finally appeared in 1889, to decidedly mixed reviews. Though controversial from the outset, Herndon's Lincoln nonetheless established itself as a classic, and remains, as Don E. Fehrenbacher declared, "the most influential biography of Lincoln ever published." This new edition restores the original text, includes two chapters added in the revised (1892) edition, and traces the story of how this landmark biography got written. Extensive annotation affords the reader a detailed look at the biography's sources."
Beschreibung:	xxxviii, 481 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	0252030729 9780252030727