LINCOLNS QUEST FOR UNION - Softcover

Strozier, Charles B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252013778 ISBN 13: 9780252013775

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1987

Synopsis

1987 University of Illinois Press trade paperback, Charles B. Strozier (Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed). In Lincoln's Quest for Union, Charles Strozier gives the most probing account available of Lincoln's inner life-from the time he was a young man in Illinois, just finding himself, through his ascent to the presidency when he guided the nation and articulated for the country the meaning of the Civil War. With the probity of an open-minded historian and the skills of a trained therapist (he is both), Strozier examines Lincoln's relationships to women: his mother, stepmother, two young loves, and Mary Todd. He also considers Lincoln's feelings toward his father and male friends and colleagues. - Amazon

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About the Author

Charles B. Strozier is professor of history at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and is a training and supervising psychoanalyst and senior faculty member at the Training and Research Institute in Self Psychology (TRISP). He is the author of Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (FSG, 2001) and Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamental-ism in America.

Review

Praise for Charles Strozier and Lincoln's Quest for Union

"Surpassingly eloquent."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times

"This is a remarkable book with extraordinary insights about the inner life of Abraham Lincoln. It will be read and studied for years to come, for Charles Strozier brings to every chapter the very qualities that Lincoln himself possessed—empathy, wisdom, balance, and creativity."—Doris Kearns Goodwin, Author of No Ordinary Time

"When Lincoln's Quest for Union was first published, it was immediately recognized as the best-informed and most perceptive analysis of Lincoln's inner life. This new edition, extensively revised and expanded, is even more rewarding. This is a basic book in the Lincoln canon—a work of great intelligence, written with sensitivity and literary grace. I cannot recommend it highly enough."—Prof. David Herbert Donald, Author of Lincoln

"Provocative and persuasive when it originally appeared in 1982, this new edition is even better. Strozier incorporates recent scholarship, fortifies his arguments, answers his critics, and offers a compelling psychological portrait of our most admired and enigmatic president."—Cullom Davis, University of Illinois at Springfield

"Eighteen years after it first appeared, Lincoln's Quest for Union still does what only the very best books about Lincoln do: It makes us think afresh about how so great a man could have grown from such meager beginnings."—Geoffrey Ward

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0252013778
• ISBN 13: 9780252013775
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1