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(3.98) | 6 | In this brilliant and illuminating portrait of our sixteenth president, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald examines the significance of friendship in Abraham Lincoln's life and the role it played in shaping his career and his presidency. Though Abraham Lincoln had hundreds of acquaintances and dozens of admirers, he had almost no intimate friends. Behind his mask of affability and endless stream of humorous anecdotes, he maintained an inviolate reserve that only a few were ever able to penetrate. Professor Donald's remarkable book offers a fresh way of looking at Abraham Lincoln, both as a man who needed friendship and as a leader who understood the importance of friendship in the management of men. Donald penetrates Lincoln's mysterious reserve to offer a new picture of the president's inner life and to explain his unsurpassed political skills.… (mer) |
▾Information om boken ▾LibraryThings rekommendationer  0 0DisassemblyOfReason: The author notes in the preface that he considers this (which he got from one of its editors) the best introduction to the literature on the nature and significance of friendship, which he consulted to attempt to answer the question of how Abraham Lincoln (who was very reserved and had few very close friends) could also be a man who was self-made largely on the strength of his ability to make friends everywhere.… (mer)
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. All I can do is to urge you to put friendship ahead of all other human concerns, for there is nothing so suited to man's nature, nothing that can mean so much to him, whether in good times or bad.- Cicero, "On Friendship"  | |
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. For my grandchildren, Aleta Groh Donald and Maia Groh Donald | |
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. In the 1880s, when John Hay and John G. Nicolay were collaborating on their biography of Abraham Lincoln, they discussed the tone and bias of the work. Fierce Republicans both, they did not want to "write a stump speech in eight vols," but instead "to write the history of those times like two everlasting angels - who know everything, judge everything, tell the truth about everything and don't care a twang of their harps about one side or the other." But then Hay added a demurrer: "There will be one exception. We are Lincoln men all the way through." (preface) Everybody liked the boy, but he had no special friends. | |
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. Speed had heard Lincoln speak in a celebrated 1836 debate in Springfield. He was so effective that George Forquer, a wealthy Springfield resident who had recently left the Whig party to join the Democrats and had been appointed register of the Land Office as a reward, felt it necessary to take Lincoln down, ridiculing him in every way he could. Lincoln, in reply, referred to the lightning rod Forquer had just erected over his splendid Springfield house and told the audience: "I would rather die now, than, like the gentleman change my politics, and simultaneous with the change, receive an office worth three thousand dollars per year, and then have to erect a lightning-rod over my house, to protect a guilty conscience from an offended God." "If you wished to be Cut off at the knee," Herndon remembered, "just go at Lincoln with abstractions - glittering generalities - indefiniteness - mistiness of idea or expression." | |
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