The inner world of Abraham Lincoln /
Abraham Lincoln's excruciating, yet highly productive, midlife crisis; his woeful marriage to a dishonest woman who often embarrassed and sometimes physically abused him; his intense estrangement from a shiftless father; his streak of cruelty; his explosive temper; and his aversion to women are...
| Основен автор: | Burlingame, Michael, 1941- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
c1994.
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Съдържание:
- Lincoln's midlife crisis: from party Hack to Statesman
- "I used to be a slave": the origins of Lincoln's hatred of slavery
- "Unrestrained by parental tyranny": Lincoln and his sons
- Surrogate father Abraham
- Lincoln's depressions: "melancholy dript from him as he walked"
- Lincoln's attitude toward women: the most striking contradiction of a complex character
- Lincoln's anger and cruelty
- "The most ambitious man in the world"
- The Lincolns' marriage: "a fountain of misery, of a quality absolutely infernal".