| Description |
xxxvii, 964 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The Library of America ; 192s |
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Library of America ; 192s.
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| Summary |
Brings together 110 selections by a diverse array of 95 writers from William Cullen Bryant to E. L. Doctorow. Represents a composite portrait of our greatest president told by the journalists, biographers, satirists, essayists, novelists, clergymen, poets, play-wrights, historians, memoirists, and statesmen who have shaped our understanding of Lincoln and his complex and crucial legacy over the last 150 years. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 935-944) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Harold Holzer -- Portrait by Mathew Brady, New York City, taken February 27, 1860 -- Introduction of Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union (February 27, 1860) / William Cullen Bryant -- From Life of Abraham Lincoln (1860) / William Dean Howells -- From Lincoln on the eve of '61 (November 1860) / Henry Villard -- Artemus Ward on his visit to Abe Lincoln (December 8, 1860) / Artemus Ward -- From The journals (February 1862) / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- From Chiefly about war-matters by a peaceable man (July 1862) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Three hundred thousand more (July 16, 1862) / James Sloan Gibbons -- The prayer of twenty millions (August 19, 1862) / Horace Greeley -- On events in North America (October 12, 1862) / Karl Marx -- From The diaries (1862) / George Templeton Strong -- From The journals (c. July 1863) / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The President's policy (January 1864) / James Russell Lowell -- Abraham Lincoln (February 6, 1864) / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- From Abraham Africanus I (1864) / Anonymous -- Title page, Abraham Africanus I (1864) -- Has an interview with the President (1864) / Petroleum V. Nasby -- The Federal Phoenix (December 3, 1864) / Anonymous -- |
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From The diaries (1865) / George Templeton Strong -- Abraham Lincoln, the martyr victorious, print by John Sartain -- Sermon preached in Boston (April 16, 1865) / Edward Everett Hale -- Remarks at the services held in Concord (April 19, 1865) / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Death of Lincoln (April, 1865) / William Cullen Bryant -- Sermon preached in Brooklyn (April 23, 1865) / Henry Ward Beecher -- Oration in Union Square, New York City (April 25, 1865) / George Bancroft -- Abraham Lincoln : assassinated Good Friday, 1865 (April 1865) / Edmund Clarence Stedman -- Abraham Lincoln : foully assassinated April 14, 1865 (May 6, 1865) / Tom Taylor -- Abraham Lincoln's murder (May 15, 1865) / Henrik Ibsen -- Address of the International Working Men's Association to President Johnson (May 20, 1865) / Karl Marx -- Abraham Lincoln : an Horatian ode (1865) / Richard Henry Stoddard -- "Crown his blood-stained pillow" (1865) / Julia Ward Howe -- Personal recollections of Abraham Lincoln (July 1865) / Noah Brooks -- From Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration (1865) / James Russell Lowell -- Notebook entry (September-October 1865) / Victor Hugo -- |
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The martyr (1866) / Herman Melville -- Abraham Lincoln, Ann Rutledge, and New Salem : a lecture (November 1866) / William H. Herndon -- Oration in memory of Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1876) / Frederick Douglass -- Freedmen's Monument, Washington, D.C., by Thomas Ball (1876) -- The emancipation group (1879) / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Abraham Lincoln (1880) / Richard Henry Stoddard -- From Leaves of grass : When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd ; O Captain! My Captain! ; Hush'd be the camps to-day (May, 1865) ; This dust was once the man (1881) / Walt Whitman -- From Specimen days & collect : Abraham Lincoln ; Death of President Lincoln ; No good portrait of Lincoln ; Death of Abraham Lincoln (1882) / Walt Whitman -- The hand of Lincoln (1883) / Edmund Clarence Stedman -- From Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant (1886) / Ulysses S. Grant -- From Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by distinguished men of his time (1886) / Frederick Douglass -- On the life-mask of Abraham Lincoln (1886) ; To the spirit of Abraham Lincoln (1888) / Richard Watson Gilder -- Bronze cast from the plaster life mask of Abraham Lincoln and plaster casts of Lincoln's hands made by Leonard Wells Volk in 1860 -- From November boughs (1888) / Walt Whitman -- From Herndon's Lincoln : the true story of a great life (1889) / William H. Herndon & Jesse W. Weik -- From Abraham Lincoln : a history (1890) / John G. Nicolay & John Hay -- From Inside the White House in war times (1890) / William O. Stoddard -- From Abraham Lincoln : an essay (1891) / Carl Schurz -- From Lecture on Abraham Lincoln (1893) / Bram Stoker -- |
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From The life of Abraham Lincoln (1900) / Ida M. Tarbell -- From The crisis (1901) / Winston Churchill -- Lincoln, the man of the people (1901) / Edwin Markham -- A Lincoln memorial (January 13, 1907) / Mark Twain -- Lincoln-- the boy (1907) / James Whitcomb Riley -- Tolstoi holds Lincoln world's greatest hero (February 7, 1909) / Leo Tolstoy -- Centenary address at Hodgenville, Kentucky (February 12, 1909) / Theodore Roosevelt -- Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (February 12, 1909) / Booker T. Washington -- Abraham Lincoln (1909) / Julia Ward Howe -- The master (1910) / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight (1914) / Vachel Lindsay -- From Spoon River anthology : Anne Rutledge ; Hannah Armstrong (1915) / Edgar Lee Masters -- Journey and oath ; "Paint his head against lavender shadows" (1915) / Carl Sandburg -- Address at Hodgenville, Kentucky (September 4, 1916) / Woodrow Wilson -- A farmer remembers Lincoln (1917) / Witter Bynner -- Lincoln (1921) / John Gould Fletcher -- Draft of speech at the Lincoln Memorial (May 1922) / Robert Russa Moton -- From The Crisis (May-September 1922) / W.E.B. Du Bois -- From The six greatest men in history (July 1922) / H.G. Wells -- From Prejudices : third series (1922) / H.L. Mencken -- From In the American grain (1925) / William Carlos Williams -- From Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years (1926) / Carl Sandburg -- From John Brown's body (1928) / Stephen Vincent Benét -- From With malice toward none (1928) / Honoré Willsie Morrow -- From Lincoln the unknown (1932) / Dale Carnegie -- Lincoln Monument : Washington (1932) / Langston Hughes -- Nancy Hanks (1933) / Rosemary Benét -- From The people, yes : 57 (1936) / Carl Sandburg -- American ikon-- Lincoln (c. 1939) / Marsden Hartley -- Weary of the truth, oil painting by Marsden Hartley (1940) -- From Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1939) / Robert E. Sherwood -- Raymond Massey in the Broadway production of Abe Lincoln in Illinois, drawn for the theater playbill by Norman Rockwell (1938) -- Mr. Lincoln and his gloves (c. 1942) / Carl Sandburg -- The dictionary of the wolf (1944) / Melvin B. Tolson -- The long shadow of Lincoln : a litany (1945) / Carl Sandburg -- |
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Remarks at Gettysburg (November 19, 1951) / Adlai E. Stevenson -- From Abraham Lincoln-- the early years (1953) / James Agee -- From Love is eternal (1954) / Irving Stone -- From A history of the English-speaking peoples (1958) / Sir Winston Churchill -- From The last days of Lincoln (1959) / Mark Van Doren -- Lincoln the writer (1959) / Jacques Barzun -- Lincoln (1959) / Delmore Schwartz -- From The rivalry (1960) / Norman Corwin -- From If the South had won the Civil War (1961) / MacKinlay Kantor -- Abraham Lincoln and the art of the word (1961) / Marianne Moore -- From Patriotic gore (1962) / Edmund Wilson -- Cartoon by Bill Mauldin, Chicago Sun-Times, November 23, 1963 -- Lincoln and his almost chosen people (1964) / John Dos Passos -- The religion of Abraham Lincoln (February 1965) / Reinhold Niebuhr -- Was Abe Lincoln a white supremacist? (February 1968) / Lerone Bennett Jr. -- From The Civil War : a narrative (1974) / Shelby Foote -- Abraham Lincoln (1976) / Robert Lowell -- The Lincoln relics (1978) / Stanley Kunitz -- Adapted from Neruda's "Que despierte el leñador" (1982) / Allen Ginsberg -- Lincoln and Confucian virtues (1983) / Donggill Kim -- From O Albany! An urban tapestry (1983) / William Kennedy -- From Unto this hour (1984) / Tom Wicker -- From Lincoln (1984) / Gore Vidal -- Abraham Lincoln and our "unfinished work" (February 12, 1986) / Mario M. Cuomo -- From Freedom (1987) / William Safire -- From Lincoln at Gettysburg : the words that remade America (1992) / Garry Wills -- From Abe : a novel of the young Lincoln (2000) / Richard Slotkin -- From Mr. Lincoln's wars (2003) / Adam Braver -- From The march (2005) / E.L. Doctorow -- Epilogue : Barack Obama at Springfield. |
| Note |
"A special publication of The Library of America." |
| Subject |
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Miscellanea.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Holzer, Harold.
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Library of America (Firm)
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Lincoln anthology. New York : Library of America, c2009 (OCoLC)664316371 |
| ISBN |
9781598530339 trade ed. alkaline paper |
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159853033X trade ed. alkaline paper |
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9781598530438 slipcase ed. |
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1598530437 slipcase ed. |
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