Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0252023285 ISBN 13 : 9780252023286

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 1997

Synopsis

Winner of the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award

More than 600 letters and interviews providing information about Abraham Lincoln's prepolitical and prelegal careers are included in this volume, a priceless collection never before available in one place.

Women to whom Lincoln proposed marriage, political allies and adversaries, judges and fellow attorneys, longtime comrades, erstwhile friends--all speak out here in words first gathered by William H. Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, between 1865 and 1890. Historian David Herbert Donald has called Herndon's materials "the basic source for Abraham Lincoln's early years."

Some of those Herndon questioned were illiterate; others could read but barely write. Completion of this undertaking took the editors to three major collections for the mammoth task of transcribing documents that often were nearly illegible.

Invaluable to Lincoln scholars and intriguing to anyone curious about Lincoln and his times, the book includes an introduction, scholarly annotations, a registry of the informants, and a detailed topical index.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Douglas L. Wilson is the director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois. Rodney O. Davis (d. 2019) was co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College. They are the coeditors of Lincoln's Confidant: The Life of Noah Brooks, Herndon on Lincoln: Letters, Herndon's Lincoln, and The Lincoln-Douglas Debates.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252023285
• ISBN 13: 9780252023286
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 864
• Éditeur: Wilson Douglas L, Davis Rodney O.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible