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Harold Holzer

Lincoln as I Knew Him

Gossip, Tributes, and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies

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What was Lincoln really like? Depends on whom you ask... Here are first-hand recollections from the famous (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne) to the not-so-famous to the downright infamous (John Wilkes Booth). Military men on Lincoln's leadership: The President is nothing more than a well meaning baboon. --General George McClellan Journalists on Lincoln's character: No man living has a kinder heart. --Noah Brooks Artists on Lincoln's appearance: Mr. Lincoln had the saddest face I ever attempted to paint. --Francis Bicknell Carpenter Lady friends on Lincoln's courtship manners: Mr. Lincoln was deficient i… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-56512-681-7
  • EAN: 9781565126817
  • Produktnummer: 4250957
  • Verlag: Workman
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 281 S.
  • Masse: H17.8 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.1 cm
  • Abbildungen: Trade Paperback

Über den Autor


Harold Holzer is one of the country’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. He has published over thirty books, including The New York Times Complete Civil War (Black Dog and Leventhal), and is the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Lincoln Prize and the National Humanities Medal. He lectures widely, appears on television frequently, and has written for the New York Times, American Heritage, and America’s Civil War. Most recently he served as co-chair of the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and is senior vice president for external affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Find him online at www.haroldholzer.com.

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