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Title: Lincoln as I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies by Harold Holzer ISBN: 1-56512-166-X Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A little treasure
Comment: I received this book as a gift when it first came out. I had always admired this great president, but hadn't read anything else on Lincoln prior to this book. I found that I couldn't put it done and read it in like 3 days. I almost would describe the book as a picture album full of snapsnots taken by Lincoln's friends, family, and acquaintances. I write this review nearly 4 years later because I picked it up again to read after a recent Lincoln program on PBS aired on television. I fell in love with the book and the man once again. One does not have to be a history or political buff to admire and treasure this small book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A MUST FOR ANY COMPLETE LINCOLN LIBRARY
Comment: One of the challenges one faces when studying the life of Abraham Lincoln is the rampant deification that began virtually when John Wilkes Boothe fired his fatal shot on the evening of April 14, 1865.
Since that day biographies have abounded that have, in most instances painted the venerable president in the most friendly and adoring hues possible, making it difficult, if not impossible to have a true look at one of the greatest men to ever live. Where can one go who wants a quick and accurate overview?
This small book, Lincoln as I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies, edited by Harold Holzer, offers a solution.
The book offers excerpts from the personal writings of many who knew him best. These memoirs offer views of a complex individual who suffered from fits of nearly overpowering depression and doubt, was one of the tallest figures of his time and extremely down-to-earth and accessible. These personal accounts provide detail about his numerous idiosyncrasies regarding personal grooming, and diet.
Lincoln As I Knew Him is a wonderful book, offering and up close and personal look a man whose life and impact on the United States will be remembered for forever. If you've read numerous Lincoln biographies as I have you still won't want to miss this one.
Douglas McAllister
Rating: 5
Summary: Simpy a great book.
Comment: I have about 100 books on Lincoln and this is one of the best, it draws on stories from some others but it is an easy and very good read for those who want incites into perhaps or greatest President as told by those who knew him and heard him speak.
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Title: Herndon's Life of Lincoln: The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (Da Capo Paperback) by William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Henry S. Commager ISBN: 0306801957 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay's Interviews and Essays by John G. Nicolay, Michael Burlingame ISBN: 0809320541 Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln by Michael Burlingame ISBN: 0252020863 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: LINCOLN by David Herbert Donald ISBN: 068482535X Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 05 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: We Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends by David Herbert Donald ISBN: 0743254686 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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