Format:
Online-Ressource (xix, 167 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0809320541
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0809326841
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9780809326846
Content:
John C. Nicolay, who had known Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, served as chief White House secretary from 1861 to 1865. Trained as a journalist, Nicolay had hoped to write a campaign biography of Lincoln in 1860, a desire that was thwarted when an obscure young writer named William Dean Howells got the job. Years later, however, Nicolay fulfilled his ambition; with John Hay, he spent the years from 1872 to 1890 writing a monumental ten-volume biography of Lincoln. In preparation for this task, Nicolay interviewed men who had known Lincoln both during his years in Springfield and later when he became the president of the United States. "When it came time to write their massive biography, however," Burlingame notes, "he and Hay made sparing use of the interviews" because they had become "skeptical about human memory." Nicolay and Hay also feared that Robert Todd Lincoln might censor material that reflected "poorly on Lincoln or his wife." Nicolay had interviewed such Springfield friends as Lincoln's first two law partners, John Todd Stuart and Stephen T. Logan. At the Illinois capital in June and July 1875, he talked to a number of others including Orville H. Browning, U.S. senator and Lincoln's close friend and adviser for over thirty-five years, and Ozias M. Hatch, Lincoln's political ally and Springfield neighbor. Four years later he returned briefly and spoke with John W. Bunn, a young political "insider" from Springfield at the time Lincoln was elected president, and once again with Hatch. Browning shed new light on Lincoln's courtship and marriage, telling Nicolay that Lincoln often told him "that he was constantly under great apprehension lest his wife should do something which would bring him into disgrace" while in the White House. During their research, Nicolay and Hay also learned of Lincoln's despondency and erratic behavior following
Content:
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- 1. The Springfield Interviews -- 2. The Washington Interviews -- 3. Other Interviews and Two Essays by Nicolay -- Notes -- Index -- Author Bio -- Back Cover.
Note:
"Sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Association
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-158) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780809388141
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780809320547
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780809320547
Language:
English
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