Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life - Softcover

Herndon, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1496165756 ISBN 13: 9781496165756

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country’s most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the “Westerner” who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before becoming the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln successfully navigated the Union through the Civil War but didn’t live to witness his crowning achievement, becoming the first president assassinated when he was shot at Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. In the generation after the Civil War, Lincoln became an American deity and one of the most written about men in history. With such a sterling reputation, even historians hesitate to write a critical word; in Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin casts Lincoln as an almost superhuman puppet master in control of his Cabinet’s political machinations and the war’s direction, juggling the balancing act flawlessly. As a result, Lincoln the man is far less known than Lincoln the myth. William Herndon was Abraham Lincoln's former law partner, and his eponymous Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life is considered the finest and most thoroughly researched biography of Lincoln.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1496165756
• ISBN 13: 9781496165756
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258