Benjamin P Thomas

Lincoln's Humor and Other Essays

Herausgeber: Burlingame, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"If I did not laugh occasionally I should die," Lincoln is said to have told his cabinet, "and you need this medicine as much as I do." Now in paperback, this volume gathers the best unpublished and uncollected work on Lincoln by Benjamin P. Thomas, widely regarded as the greatest Lincoln historian of his generation. This diverse collection is enhanced by an introduction by Michael Burlingame, himself a leading biographer of Lincoln, who provides a balanced portrait of Thomas and his circuitous path toward writing history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 164mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780252073403
• ISBN-10: 0252073401
• Artikelnr.: 22143873

Autorenporträt

Benjamin P. Thomas. Edited by Michael Burlingame

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments   ix
Introduction   xi
PART 1: THE WORDS OF LINCOLN
1. Lincoln's Humor: An Analysis   3
2. Abraham Lincoln   23
3. Lincoln's Way with Words   28
4. The Meaning of the Gettysburg Address, Then and Today   34
PART 2: THE LIFE OF LINCOLN
5. Lincoln and Democracy   45
6. Some Popular Misconceptions about Lincoln   60
7. Lincoln and New Salem   71
8. Lincoln and the South   79
9. Lincoln from 1847 to 1853   90
10. Abe Lincoln, Country Lawyer   139
11. Lincoln and the Courts, 1854-61   153
12. Edwin M. Stanton Takes Over the War Department   189
PART 3: THE BIOGRAPHERS OF LINCOLN
13. Backstage with the Lincoln Biographers   207
14. Harry Edward Pratt   222
15. Our Lincoln Heritage from Ida Tarbell   230
16. The Art of Biography   246
Index   253