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Lincoln : a psycho-biography
Title
Lincoln : a psycho-biography / by L. Pierce Clark.
Publication
New York ; London : C. Scribner's Sons, 1933.
Physical Description
ix, 570 pages, plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
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Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement.
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Summary
"That there may be as little controversy as possible as to the accuracy of the historical facts, the author has quoted freely from works which have been considered to be most authentic and which are listed in the back of this volume. The much-discussed events surrounding "the fatal first of January, 1841"--an expression which Lincoln himself used in a letter and which has been variously interpreted--are taken from Joshua Speed's statement to Herndon, statements made by Mrs. Edwards as to Lincoln's untoward behavior on that day, and other data which are now a part of the Weik MSS.; much of this Herndon has recounted in his Life of Lincoln. In order to confine the book to its present length, much valuable psychological groundwork had to be sacrificed, together with the use of too many technical terms unfamiliar to the average reader. The author presents interesting new sidelights on Lincoln's character that add to the well-known picture of the great statesman; he believes he has succeeded in rendering a greater depth of understanding to the unconscious motivations that have played a dominant role in the personality of the most human, the most gentle personage in American history"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).
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Ovid PsycBooks.
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Also issued in print.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 09, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-560) and index.
Contents
February 12, 1809
"My father taught me to work. He did not teach me to love it"
"The thought of the snow and rain beating on her grave fills me with indescribable grief!"
"The gates of hell shall not prevail against it!"
"I can never be satisfied with any one who would be blockhead enough to have me"
"The fatal first of January, 1841!"
"Turn about is fair play"
"I am going back to Springfield to practice law"
"When I was on the Eighth Judicial Circuit ..."
"Laughter is the joyous, universal evergreen of life"
"Why Hannah, I shan't charge you a cent-never!"
"Sooner than yield your legal right to the slave ... you would see the Union dissolved!"
"A house divided against itself cannot stand"
"I accept ..."
"Mary, we're elected!"
"I do solemnly swear I will ..."
"My Cabinet, like Cæsar's wife, must be above suspicion ..."
"I will repel force by force"
"I will hold McClellan's horse if he will only bring us success!"
"Nor must Uncle Sam's web feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present"
"It is a military necessity ... that we must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued"
"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward"
"If the world has no butchers but myself it will go bloodless"
"If I am right, I'll live"
"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets"
"The Union people have deemed me not unworthy ..."
"I am a kind of immortalist"
"The Union must live, or I shall die!"
"Like Banquo's ghost, it will not down"
April 15, '65. 7:22 A.M.
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