Brenda R. (nurse) reviewed on 3/17/2008 + 221 more book reviews

here is Lincoln in his bitter struggle to rise from poverty to self-made sucess in buisness and law. Lincoln the politician,who survived crushing defeat and disappointment: Lincoln the husband and father, who came to know tender love and shattering loss; Lincoln, the president,who despised slavery yet hesitated to split the Union;Lincoln, the leader who had to learn to manipulate men,command armies,and take responsibiity for the fates of millions. Lincoln, the extraordinarily complex human being,at once witty and melancholy, determined yet fatalistic, full of life yet obsessed with death, astutely pragmatic yet staunchly idealistic.Here is Lincoln as he really was and now as we come to know him for the first time. Lincoln the man not the myth.

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