Title: Lincoln's quest for union : public and private meanings /
Authors: Strozier, Charles B.
Publisher: Basic Books,
Year: 1982
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham,; Lincoln, Abraham, Psychology.; Presidents United States Biography
Abstract: In Lincoln's Quest for Union, Charles Strozier gives the most probing account available of Lincoln's inner life—from the time he was a young man in Illinois, just finding himself, through his ascent to the presidency when he guided the nation and articulated for the country the meaning of the Civil War. With the probity of an open-minded historian and the skills of a trained therapist (he is both), Strozier examines Lincoln's relationships to women: his mother, stepmother, two young loves, and Mary Todd. He also considers Lincoln's feelings toward his father and male friends and colleagues.
Contents: Childhood on the frontier -- Young man Lincoln -- Fathers and sons -- M.T.L. -- A little world made cunningly -- Law and order -- The domestication of political rhetoric -- The group self and the crisis of the 1850s -- The shape of a leader.