Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

Shenk, Joshua Wolf

ISBN 10: 0618551166 / ISBN 13: 9780618551163

Edité par Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 2005

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Glued binding. Paper over boards. xiv, 350, [2] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. . DJ has some wear and soiling. Signed by author on t-p. Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk's Lincoln's Melancholy reveals how this illness influenced both the president's character and his leadership. Lincoln forged a hard path toward mental health from the time he was a young man. Shenk draws from historical record, interviews with Lincoln scholars, and contemporary research on depression to understand the nature of his unhappiness. In the process, he discovers that the President's coping strategies; among them, a rich sense of humor and a tendency toward quiet reflection; ultimately helped him to lead the nation through its greatest turmoil. From an on-line posting: "Joshua Wolf Shenk is a writer based in New York City. His essays and articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Time, Harper s Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, among others, and in the national bestseller Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression, edited by Nell Casey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Lincoln s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness. Shenk teaches writing at the New School University and serves on the board of Stories at the Moth. He is a member of the advisory council to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and a contributing editor to The Washington Monthly. He is also a member of the advisory council to the Shul of New York. Shenk s honors include a Rosalynn Carter fellow at the Carter Center, the Frank Whiting scholarship, and residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Blue Mountain Center. He is a 2005-06 fellow in non-fiction at the New York Foundation for the Arts.".

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0618551166
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780618551163
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First edition. First printing [stated].
• État de l'article: Very good
• État de la jaquette: good
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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  • Abraham Lincoln

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Revue de presse

"Lincoln's Melancholy is an extraordinary story, for the depth of its scholarship and the lure of its style." --Mike Wallace, cohost of CBS's "60 Minutes"

"Lincoln not only coped with his depression, he harnessed it. Joshua Wolf Shenk [explains how] masterfully and memorably." --Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute and author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

"A profoundly human and psychologically important examination of the melancholy that so pervaded Lincoln's life....Remarkable." --Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and author of An Unquiet Mind

"This is sensitive history, with important implications for the present." Publishers Weekly

"A significant contribution to the study of Lincoln and his battle with depression that will resonate with contemporary Americans. . .inspirational." Kirkus Reviews, Starred

"Compelling...An estimable contribution to the Lincoln literature." Booklist, ALA

"[Shenk argues] with uncommon common sense, a rare understanding of historical context, and a close reading of the primary sources." Library Journal Starred

"Intellectually energetic. . .By treating Lincoln from this angle, Shenk does gain a dimension that not all Lincoln books achieve." --William Lee Miller The Washington Post

"It contains some extremely beautiful prose and fine political rhetoric and leaves one feeling close to Lincoln, a considerable accomplishment." --Andrew Solomon New York Magazine

"A fresh, fascinating, provocative pschohistory." --Sanford D. Horwitt The San Francisco Chronicle