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Pryor, Elizabeth Brown
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Anecdotes.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Miscellanea.
Presidents -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Presidents -- United States -- Miscellanea.
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Pryor, Elizabeth Brown
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Anecdotes.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Miscellanea.
Presidents -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Presidents -- United States -- Miscellanea.
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Six
encounters
with
Lincoln
: a president confronts democracy and its demons / Elizabeth Brown Pryor.
by
Pryor, Elizabeth Brown
Viking, c2017.
Call #:
973.7092 P973s
Subjects
Lincoln
, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Anecdotes.
Lincoln
, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Miscellanea.
Presidents -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Presidents -- United States -- Miscellanea.
ISBN:
9780670025909 (hc)
0670025909 (hc)
Alternate title:
6
encounters
with
Lincoln
Description:
xi, 480 p. : ill., portraits ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
A wary handshake -- Pfunny pface -- Two emancipators meet -- Of fathers and sons -- Hell-cats -- The hollow crown -- Epilogue to the hollow crown :
Lincoln
and Shakespeare.
Summary:
Explores the psychology, character, and leadership of the sixteenth president as evidenced by six
encounters
with his constituents, from an awkward meeting with Army officers on the eve of the Civil War to a White House conversation with a fierce abolitionist.
"In this absorbing book, Elizabeth Brown Pryor offers new perspectives on our sixteenth president by examining six intriguing, mostly unknown
encounters
he had with his constituents. Taken together, they reveal his opinions and character in unexpected ways, illustrating the difficulties of managing a republic and creating a presidency. While each of these stories shows
Lincoln
in all his quirky greatness, each is also an invitation to rethink our presumptions about him. An awkward first meeting with army officers on the eve of the Civil War reflects
Lincoln
's unease with military culture, giving insight into his erratic management of the Union forces during the war. A conversation between
Lincoln
and a fiercely abolitionist cavalry sergeant enables Pryor to probe into how cautiously
Lincoln
moved on the emancipation issue; it was his ability to inch along the narrow road of consensus that defined his political skill.
Lincoln
's meeting with Cherokee chief John Ross leads Pryor to explore how catastrophic the
Lincoln
administration was for Native Americans--and how poignant, given
Lincoln
's reputation as a defender of human rights. Pryor teases out the reasons behind
Lincoln
's discomfort with the strongminded women who came to him on political business and, in recounting a tense exchange with a Confederate businessman in 1865, addresses
Lincoln
's tortured relationship with the South and the toll it took on him. Pryor also provides a fascinating discussion of
Lincoln
's fondness for storytelling and how he used his skills as a raconteur to enhance both his political and his personal power. Drawing on hundreds of firsthand accounts from reporters, diarists, and letter writers that give the narrative great immediacy, Six
Encounters
with
Lincoln
provides a fresh portrait of
Lincoln
as a beleaguered politician who was not especially popular, who had to deal with the many critics, naysayers, and dilemmas he faced without always knowing the right answer. What this book shows most clearly is that greatness was not simply laid on
Lincoln
's shoulders like a mantle but was won in fits and starts."--Dust jacket.
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