Abraham Lincoln : : A Press Portrait / / Herbert Mitgang.

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• VerfasserIn: Mitgang, Herbert,
• MitwirkendeR: Mitgang, Herbert,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2023]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: The North's Civil War
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (519 p.)

This striking portrait of Abraham Lincoln found in this book is drawn entirely from the writing of his contemporaries and extends from his political beginnings in Springfield to his assassination. It reveals a more severely beleaguered, less godlike, and finally a richer Lincoln than has come through many of the biographies of Lincoln written at a distance after his death. To those who are familiar only with the various “retouched” versions of Lincoln’s life, Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait will be a welcome—if sometimes surprising—addition to the literature surrounding the man who is perhaps the central figure in all of American history. The brutality, indeed that malignancy of some of the treatment Lincoln received at the hands of the press may well shock those readers who believe the second half of the twentieth century has a monopoly on the journalism of insult, outrage, and indignation. That Lincoln acted with the calm and clarity he did under the barrage of such attacks can only enhance his stature as one of the great political leaders of any nation at any time. Herbert Mitgang is author of several books, including Once upon a Time in New York, The Man Who Rode the Tiger, The Letters of Carl Sandburg, The Return, America at Random, and Working for the Reader.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION TO THE 2000 EDITION -- SOURCES AND PUBLICATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE YOUNG LINCOLN MARCH 1832-AUGUST 1846 -- 2 CONGRESSMAN LINCOLN AUGUST 1846-OCTOBER 1854 -- 3 THE GREAT DEBATER OCTOBER 1854-NOVEMBER 185 -- 4 A NATIONAL MAN NOVEMBER 1858-MAY 1860 -- 5 LINCOLN FOR PRESIDENT MAY 1860-MARCH 1861 -- 6 PRESIDENT AT WAR MARCH 1861-APRIL 1862 -- 7 THE EMANCIPATOR APRIL 1862-JANUARY 1863 -- 8 COMMANDER IN CHIEF JANUARY 1863-JUNE 1864 -- 9 THE SECOND TERM JUNE 1864-APRIL 14, 1865 -- 10 AS THEY SAW HIM APRIL 15-MAY 1865 -- INDEX