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This work is a biography of Lincoln, written by his law partner and close associate William Herndon.
Author : William Henry Herndon
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Presidents
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This work is a biography of Lincoln, written by his law partner and close associate William Herndon.
Author : William Henry Herndon
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Presidents
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Author : William H. Herndon
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 2016-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252097920
After Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, William H. Herndon began work on a brief, "subjective" biography of his former law partner, but his research turned up such unexpected and often startling information that it became a lifelong obsession. The biography finally published in 1889, Herndon's Lincoln, was a collaboration with Jesse W. Weik in which Herndon provided the materials and Weik did almost all the writing. For this reason, and because so much of what Herndon had to say about Lincoln was not included in the biography, David Donald has observed, "To understand Herndon's own rather peculiar approach to Lincoln biography, one must go back to his letters." An exhaustive collection of what Herndon was told by others about Lincoln was published by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis in Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln . In this new volume, Wilson and Davis have produced a comprehensive edition of what Herndon himself wrote about Lincoln in his own letters. Because of Herndon's close association with Lincoln, his intimate acquaintance with his partner's legal and political careers, and because he sought out informants who knew Lincoln and preserved information that might otherwise have been lost, his letters have become an indispensable resource for Lincoln biography. Unfiltered by a collaborator and rendered in Herndon's own distinctive voice, these letters constitute a matchless trove of primary source material. Herndon on Lincoln: Letters is a must for libraries, research institutions, and students of a towering American figure and his times.
Author : David Donald
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1447487893
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : William H. Herndon
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1605207284
Written only 25 years after his death, this beloved biography of Abraham Lincoln offers something that most other studies of him do not: an intimate portrait constructed from the memories, experiences, and evidence of those who knew him. Lincoln's former law partner WILLIAM HENRY HERNDON (1818-1891) broke new journalistic ground when he insisted, in compiling this charming and insightful work, on gathering input from others who knew Lincoln well. Everything from old correspondence to new interviews Herndon conducted himself with such figures as Mary Todd Lincoln contribute to a personal look at the great man as a man, not as a myth. First published in 1889 across three small volumes, this replica edition collects the complete work into one book that will surprise and delight even those students of history who believe they know everything there is to know about Lincoln.
Author : Douglas Lawson Wilson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252023286
For twenty-five years after the president's death William Herndon, his law partner, conducted interviews with and solicited letters from dozens of persons who knew Lincoln personally.
Author : William Henry Herndon
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Page : 278 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : William II. Herndon
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : William Henry Herndon
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 1983-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306801952
Author : William H. Herndon
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1605207276
Written only 25 years after his death, this beloved biography of Abraham Lincoln offers something that most other studies of him do not: an intimate portrait constructed from the memories, experiences, and evidence of those who knew him. Lincoln's former law partner WILLIAM HENRY HERNDON (1818-1891) broke new journalistic ground when he insisted, in compiling this charming and insightful work, on gathering input from others who knew Lincoln well. Everything from old correspondence to new interviews Herndon conducted himself with such figures as Mary Todd Lincoln contribute to a personal look at the great man as a man, not as a myth. First published in 1889 across three small volumes, this replica edition collects the complete work into one book that will surprise and delight even those students of history who believe they know everything there is to know about Lincoln.