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Abraham Lincoln has achieved an unrivaled preeminence in American history, culture, and myth. Here, for the bicentennial of his birth, Lincoln and his enduring legacy are the focus of nearly 100 major authors and important historical figures from his time to the present. Edited by celebrated Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer, this collection gathers fascinating writing from a variety of genres to illuminate the Lincoln we know and revere. It enables readers to rediscover Lincoln anew through the eyes of some of our greatest writers, including Winston Churchill, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, U. S. Grant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Henrik Ibsen, Karl Marx, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, Booker T. Washington, H. G. Wells, Walt Whitman, Garry Wills, and many others. The Lincoln Anthology includes illustrations and a detailed chronology of Lincoln's life.
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Richard Jones
reviewed The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now on May 04, 2019 The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now
This collection of 110 pieces of historical accounts, biographical sketches, critical analyses, fiction and poetry, arranged chronologically, stands at a daunting 964 pages. What could have been a weary academic slog turned out to be an almost entirely engaging and interesting journey through a diverse range of views of Lincoln from 1860, with the work of his contemporaries, to the dedication speech of the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum by then U. S. Senator Barack Obama in 2005. What emerges is a mosaic; a complex array, including occasionally contradictory images, of an American who is now almost universally revered as wholly virtuous and peerless.
Among the many intriguing threads and themes that I found the most captivating were: the pervasive elements of his beginnings with deprivation and suffering, extreme physical toil, extraordinary adversity and overwhelming odds against his becoming educated and assiduous life-long pursuit of knowledge; the criticisms of him as a reluctant abolitionist and emancipator as well as his profound intellect, open minded flexibility, keen insight that were all wrapped in humility and good humor.
I highly recommend it to not just fans of American history and the Civil War era but also anyone interested in psychology, social and societal change and weighing different perspectives and opinions (something in short supply but in dire need today).
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