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Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. There are a lot of biographies of Lincoln and many are very good. I am not certain but this biography by Ronald White seems unique in two ways. These self-reflective, highly personal notes let the reader get to know Lincoln and not just the mythic image. Americans accept as a sort of cultural doctrine how great Lincoln was. The other unique thing White does in this book, especially in the second half, is to parse out how Lincoln developed some of his most famous speeches.
Lincoln would take a draft, perhaps work it through with Seward, and then often redo it in a way that improved its presentation enormously. It was a creative fusion of honesty and public presentation. We desperately need to remember the person of Abraham Lincoln today. This excellent biography does Lincoln justice and is a lesson to us of what true leadership and the best of humanity can be in the midst of a terrible crisis on American history. It has been estimated that over 11, books and other writings have been devoted to Lincoln.
It is as if there is something elusive about him, which no book can satisfy. Indeed there is something mystical about him and profoundly unknowable. The trend today in writing about Lincoln is to write more and more about less and less. It is like tasting the apple but never finishing it. This book by Ronald White is a complete biography. We now get a chance to ingest the entire fruit. Although no event is treated in depth, that is not the point of the book. It is more than a repetition of the well-known events.
For those who are frustrated by the mystery of Lincoln, this book represents an opportunity to get to know him more intimately and completely. But it is more than simply a listing of events. The events themselves are like the chords, which accompany the melody of his deepest thoughts. White allows Lincoln to speak to us through his speeches and writings. These works are not always repeated verbatim, but White summarizes them and expands upon them so as to give us an understanding of what Lincoln was actually thinking.
In so doing, we hear Lincoln as he bears his soul to the reader. White begins his book before Lincoln is born. His family history in America dates back to the 17th century, even before the birth of the nation.
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His parents were religious Baptists and he was born into their Calvinist beliefs. However, he soon abandoned organized religion when he became repelled by the emotionalism of revival meetings, which were intrinsic to the Second Great Awakening. Turning his back on revealed religion he sought refuge in reason and became a lawyer. White, in his insightful way, draws attention to the fact that Lincoln learned to examine issues from every angle before settling on a conclusion.
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Please try again later. There are a lot of biographies of Lincoln and many are very good. I am not certain but this biography by Ronald White seems unique in two ways. These self-reflective, highly personal notes let the reader get to know Lincoln and not just the mythic image.
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Americans accept as a sort of cultural doctrine how great Lincoln was. The other unique thing White does in this book, especially in the second half, is to parse out how Lincoln developed some of his most famous speeches. Lincoln would take a draft, perhaps work it through with Seward, and then often redo it in a way that improved its presentation enormously. It was a creative fusion of honesty and public presentation. We desperately need to remember the person of Abraham Lincoln today. This excellent biography does Lincoln justice and is a lesson to us of what true leadership and the best of humanity can be in the midst of a terrible crisis on American history.
It has been estimated that over 11, books and other writings have been devoted to Lincoln. It is as if there is something elusive about him, which no book can satisfy. Indeed there is something mystical about him and profoundly unknowable. The trend today in writing about Lincoln is to write more and more about less and less. It is like tasting the apple but never finishing it. This book by Ronald White is a complete biography. We now get a chance to ingest the entire fruit. Although no event is treated in depth, that is not the point of the book. It is more than a repetition of the well-known events.
For those who are frustrated by the mystery of Lincoln, this book represents an opportunity to get to know him more intimately and completely. But it is more than simply a listing of events. The events themselves are like the chords, which accompany the melody of his deepest thoughts. White allows Lincoln to speak to us through his speeches and writings.
These works are not always repeated verbatim, but White summarizes them and expands upon them so as to give us an understanding of what Lincoln was actually thinking. In so doing, we hear Lincoln as he bears his soul to the reader. White begins his book before Lincoln is born. His family history in America dates back to the 17th century, even before the birth of the nation. His parents were religious Baptists and he was born into their Calvinist beliefs.
However, he soon abandoned organized religion when he became repelled by the emotionalism of revival meetings, which were intrinsic to the Second Great Awakening. Turning his back on revealed religion he sought refuge in reason and became a lawyer. White, in his insightful way, draws attention to the fact that Lincoln learned to examine issues from every angle before settling on a conclusion. This ability would serve him well, not only in his career as a lawyer but as a legislator and then President of the United States. It was is in the legal profession that he first encountered moral conflict, a condition that would plague him until nearly the end of his life.
The law is adversarial and is thus based on conflict and confrontation, whereas Lincoln preferred mediation. He preferred to settle a case rather than argue it in court. He felt that after all is said and done, the adversaries would need to live together following their confrontation, a notion presaging his sentiments regarding reconstruction. The speech was ostensibly about the role of memory and our responsibility for preserving our political institutions. However, more importantly, it dealt with creating a secular religion with its morality based on reason.
It became one of the most notable speeches ever delivered. Reason, cold calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense. Let those materials be molded into general intelligence, sound morality and in particular, a reverence for the constitution and laws. The collision of politics, morality and divine will occurred most acutely over the issue of slavery. Lincoln was always concerned about slavery, but the issue came to a head as the Civil War approached.
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The Lincoln Douglas debates were mostly about the moral issue of slavery. For Lincoln, the issue became one of intolerable moral conflict. Only elimination of slavery would resolve the conflict and the attendant cognitive dissonance. With the end of the Civil War the conflict between morality and necessity came to an end. The slaves were at last freed and the country was saved. Lincoln counseled that one must defer to God, in all of his mystery and lack of transparency, a mystical notion divorced from reason: The will of God prevails. Both may be and one must be wrong.
One of the pleasures of this book is that one discovers for oneself what God meant to Lincoln. In the Second Inaugural address, Lincoln submitted to God who is totally opaque and unknowing. This notion is more Islamic than Christian. If one understands how Lincoln came to understand God, then one comes closer to understanding Lincoln. His journey was intensely personal.
Hence, the book is voyeurism at its titillating best. It took real courage for White to write another book about Lincoln, much less a complete biography. Those who complete the book of over pages hear beyond the background noise an entire Lincoln symphony. It is a real treat. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. One of the best biographies I've ever read. Love all the details and additional information about Abraham Lincoln that I never realized or you wouldn't get in a history book.
A great read and worth it. A bit tedious in parts, but you get more in the strategy of Lincoln here than anywhere else.
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The only complaint, which really shouldn't matter in a biography, was the lack of information that might be found after Lincoln's death if anything was to be found in records, the papers, and so on. I feel a good legacy chapter would have been a great compliment. Otherwise, I enjoyed reading this book quite a bit.
I concur with the cover quote - if you read one book about Abraham Lincoln, let it be A. I've read numerous books on Abraham Lincoln and this is by far my favorite. It covers a lot of good ground on his childhood and early life which many biographies gloss over but which directly impact his values and decisions in adulthood. I learned so much from this! I have read a couple other biographies on him, but this one, though incredibly detailed, was written so clearly that I got a sense of the divergent views on him, and what he faced on a daily basis.
It also showed the progression on his thinking about preserving the the Union but also about slavery, until he was willing to do what ever it took to eradicate it. What incredible pressure he was under! And yet, his views of God and His sovereignty developed over time as well, as this author detailed from his private correspondence as well as his public speeches.
Very long book, very detailed