Abraham Lincoln [Import] [Paperback]

B. Thomas (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Marboro Books (1994)
• ISBN-10: 156619802X
• ISBN-13: 978-1566198028
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,969,948 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Biography, Abraham Lincoln, March 22, 2002

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"reviewer17" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Abraham Lincoln : A Biography (Modern Library Edition) (Hardcover)

Most Americans know the major details of the life of our sixteenth president: his pioneer family and humble upbringing; his self - education, his rise through native wit and intelligence from lawyer to state legislator to presidential candidate; his necessarily rapid growth as a statesman to become the virtual conscience of his nation during the bloodiest rift in it's history and spirit; his vilification in the South; his assassination; and his glorification in the Northern states. What many of us may not know are the particular incidents, decisions, and qualities which created the most extraordinary figure in out political history. In this one - volume biography of Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin P. Thomas presents all the significant events and achievements in the life of one of the greatest presidents, and greatest men, in American history. These achievements, Thomas maintains, are a matter of record. There is none of the easy myth - making and hero worship that often mar both longer and shorter biographical treatments. In Abraham Lincoln readers will find little of the lyrical and romanticized Lincoln, nor will they encounter the historically possible but imagined situations which sometimes adorn Carl Sandburg's narrative. What they will find is a full account of the rise to power of a skillful politician and complicated man, who took on an enourmous amount of personal and public responsibility during the greatest crisis in our nation's history. Clearly an admirer of our sixteenth president, Thomas allows the story of Lincoln's successes and failures, and his priviate tragedies, to take its natural course to a regrettable and unnatural end. He permits both the character of the man and the weighty, worrisome decisions of the president to speak eloquently for themeselves. In summing up the Lincoln legacy, Thomas achieves an eloquence of his own: Lincoln saw his countrymen as inheritors of a trust. To them it had been given to make democracy succeed, to cleanse it of the hypocrisies that deprive it of its just example in the world. For in democracy, made genuine, he saw our last, best hope of frustrating any tyrant who seeks to regiment or debase or mislead any people, anywhere and of achieving peace on earth and good will among men and woman through the universal liberty of mankind.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A beautifully written book, August 23, 2007

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Richard Lawrence Miller, Lincoln author (Kansas City MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Abraham Lincoln (Hardcover)

Over a half century after this book appeared, it is still the standard by which all one-volume Lincoln biographies are measured, and a reminder of how much we lost by the author's premature death when he was just hitting his stride as a Lincoln scholar and writer.

5.0 out of 5 stars Well Crafted, January 16, 2012

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Denny Jackson "The Racer" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Abraham Lincoln : A Biography (Modern Library Edition) (Hardcover)

I hesitated buying this several years ago, but I am glad I did. It is well written and gives a good account on our 16th presidents life. Very easy to read and absorb. Highly recommended.