Lincoln in his own time : a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates / edited by Harold K. Bush, Jr.

Contributor Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

ImprintIowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2011]

Imprint2011

Descriptionxlv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Note:Includes several texts written by Abraham Lincoln.

Note:Includes some primary source material.

Note:[Autobiographical Statement, 1858] / Abraham Lincoln -- [Statement to William Herndon, after 1865?] / John Hanks -- Conversation with Hon. S.T. Logan at Springfield" (1875) / Stephen Trigg Logan -- "My Childhood Home I See Again" (1846) / Abraham Lincoln -- From Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln (1884) / Joshua F. Speed -- From The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1860) / William Dean Howells -- From "Eulogy for Henry Clay" (1852) / Abraham Lincoln -- From Herndon's Lincoln (1889) / Jesse W. Weik -- From The Real Lincoln (1922) / Jesse W. Weik -- [Autobiographical Statement, 1859] / Abraham Lincoln -- [Autobiographical Statement, 1860] / Abraham Lincoln -- "Chiefly about War Matters" (1862) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- "Extracts from an Unpublished Manuscript" [1860s?] / Rev. P.D. Gurley -- From Behind the Scenes (1868) / Elizabeth Keckley -- [Sketch on the Funeral for Willie Lincoln, 1862] / Nathaniel Parker Willis. Contents note continued: "Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln" (1895) / Grace Greenwood -- "Lincoln's Colonial Scheme" (1862) / Abraham Lincoln -- From They Knew Lincoln (1942) / John E. Washington -- "Army Memories of Lincoln: A Chaplain's Reminiscences" (1913) / Joseph H. Twichell -- [Three Civil War Letters of Consolation, 1861-1864] / Abraham Lincoln -- "Lincoln's Vigil" (1895) / William O. Stoddard -- From Lincoln at Gettysburg (1906) / Clark E. Carr -- "Abraham Lincoln" (1864) / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- From "Abraham Lincoln" (1865) / James Russell Lowell -- [Excerpts from Letters about Her Husband, 1865-1873] / Mary Todd Lincoln -- "Dreams and Presentiments" (1895) / Ward Hill Lamon -- "A Theatrical Manager's Reminiscences" (1895) / William E. Sinn -- From The Great Funeral Oration on Abraham Lincoln (1865) / Emma Hardinge -- From "Abraham Lincoln" (1865) / Henry Ward Beecher -- From "Abraham Lincoln" (1865) / Ralph Waldo Emerson. Contents note continued: "Abraham Lincoln" (1865) / Philips Brooks -- From "Death of Abraham Lincoln" (1879) / Walt Whitman -- "Lincoln's Imagination" (1879) / Noah Brooks -- From "Abraham Lincoln: A Speech" (1865) / Frederick Douglass -- "Lincoln's Philosophy of Life" (1886) / William Henry Herndon -- From "Abraham Lincoln" (1895) / Robert G. Ingersoll -- From Abraham Lincoln: The Evolution of His Literary Style (1900) / Daniel K. Dodge -- "A Lincoln Memorial" (1907) / Mark Twain -- "Lincoln as an Orator" (1909) / William Jennings Bryan -- From "My Tribute to the Great Emancipator" (1909) / Booker T. Washington -- "The Supreme Vision of Abraham Lincoln" (1909) / Theodore Roosevelt -- From "Abraham Lincoln: An Appreciation" (1913) / Charles Chesnutt.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239) and index.

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