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Reynolds, David S., 1948-
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Reynolds, David S., 1948-
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Abe :
Abraham
Lincoln
in his
times
/ David S. Reynolds.
by
Reynolds, David S., 1948-
Penguin Press, 2020.
Call #:
973.7092 L736r
Subjects
Lincoln
,
Abraham
, 1809-1865.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9781594206047 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Abraham
Lincoln
in his
times
Description:
xx, 1066 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [939]-1030) and index.
Summary:
"From one of the great living historians of 19th century America, a revelatory and enthralling new biography of
Lincoln
, many years in the making, that embeds him deeply in his tumultuous age. David S. Reynolds, author of the Bancroft prize-winning cultural biography of Walt Whitman and many other iconic works of 19th century American history, understands the currents in which
Abraham
Lincoln
swam as well as anyone alive. His magisterial biography Abe is the product of a breathtaking full-body immersion into the riotous tumult of American life in the decades before the Civil War. It was a country growing up and being pulled apart at the same time, with a democratic popular culture that, reflecting the country's contradictions, oscillated between the sentimental and the grotesque.
Lincoln
's lineage was considered auspicious by Emerson, Whitman and others who prophesied that it would be a new man from the West who would emerge to balance North and South. From New England Puritan stock on his father's side and Virginia Cavalier gentry on his mother's,
Lincoln
was linked by blood to the central conflict of the age. An enduring theme of his life, Reynolds shows, was his genius for striking a balance between opposing forces. Reynolds's
Lincoln
is not the self-raised child of legend; his father is much more influential and less of a flop than the legend has it. What
Lincoln
lacked in formal schooling he made up for in an unquenchable thirst for self-improvement; Reynolds leads us through the ad hoc course of study that stocked his mind, from childhood to his years as a lawyer. But there are many kinds of education, and
Lincoln
's talent for wrestling, tall tales, and bawdy jokes made him as popular with his peers as his appetite for poetry and Shakespeare and prodigious gifts for memorization set him apart from them. No one can entirely transcend the limitations of their time, and
Lincoln
was no exception. But what emerges from Reynolds's masterful reckoning is a sense of a man who at each stage in his life managed to arrive at a broader view of things than all but his most enlightened peers. As a politician, he moved too slowly for some, and too swiftly for many more, but he always pushed hard toward justice while keeping the whole nation in mind. Abe culminates, of course, in the Civil War, the defining test of
Lincoln
and his beloved country. Reynolds shows us convincingly the extraordinary range of cultural artifacts
Lincoln
drew from as he shaped a vision of true union, transforming, in King's words, "the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood."
Abraham
Lincoln
did not come out of nowhere. Never have his cultural influences been more sharply limned than by David S. Reynolds here. But if he was shaped by his
times
, he also managed at his life's fateful hour to shape them to an extent few could have foreseen. Ultimately, this is the great drama that astonishes us still, and that Abe brings to fresh and vivid life. The measure of that life, in all its democratic fullness, will always be part of our American education." --Goodreads.
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