Lincoln
Subtitle: "by littles"
By: Lewis E. Lehrman
Edition: First Edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780984017843
Subjects: Knowledge and learning; History; Philosophy; American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658; Learning and scholarship
Description: "Abraham Lincoln seldom got the chance to go to school. He went to school "by littles," he said, and received fewer than 12 months of schooling."  "In the untrammeled interior of the mind's eye, young Lincoln followed his unrestrained desire to explore new intellectual worlds, even the world of American history, of politics, of law. There, in the frictionless world of thought and fantasy, young Abraham Lincoln found the freedom, the vocation, the solace he yearned for, unshackled from the irremediable, unrequited, hard labor of farmer and village artisan."   "For Lincoln, there could be no retreat from the fundamental principles of the Declaration of Independence."

Contains primary source material.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Background. Some reflections on Mr. Lincoln; title: Some reflections on Mr. Lincoln for the second meeting of the Lincoln Seminar at Gettysburg College; title: The learned Lincoln; title: Lincoln and the founders. Presidential ambition; title: Man of Springfield found inspiration from Monticello; title: Dolley Madison, Eliza Hamilton, and Abraham Lincoln: together at the Washington Monument; title: Franklin and Lincoln: true leaders for change; title: The Declaration of Independence. Abraham Lincoln and the declaration; title: Searching for the Declaration of Independence; title: The principles of Philadelphia; title: Declaration defines Lincoln; title: Lincoln at the turning point-Peoria 1854; title: Lincoln's principles. Lincoln: man of honor; title: The patriotism of Abraham Lincoln; title: Mr. Lincoln's advice; title: Presidential virtue; title: Abraham Lincoln's faith and fatalism; title: Lincoln and economics. Lincoln's economic legacy; title: Lincoln: the self-made man; title: The party of Lincoln; title: Abraham Lincoln: an American for all time; title: Election of 1860 and secession. A house divided against itself; title: Abraham Lincoln in New York; title: Lincoln of Illinois; title: The substantial difference between us; title: Lincoln's farewell address; title: A tall order; title: Lincoln and freedom. Lincoln at Cooper Union; title: Future president pressed antislavery theme in 1860 visit; title: Lincoln and liberty; title: Inspiration on the long road to ending slavery; title: Abraham Lincoln and a day of reckoning; title: Emancipation Proclamation; title: Lincoln and the Civil War. Lincoln's special message to Congress: July 4, 1861; title: Lincoln's second inaugural; title: Lincoln and war leadership; title: Lincoln and the Civil War; title: Lincoln: master of men; title: Lincoln: first technology president; title: Lincoln and contemporaries. Holding the president's hat; title: Lincoln, a journalist from Connecticut, and a horse; title: Douglass, Lincoln had historic relationship; title: Lincoln's man from Connecticut; title: Lincoln liked confederate vice president-unlikely friend; title: President Lincoln and his stories; title: Lincoln and the United States. State brought out the best in Lincoln; title: Abraham Lincoln and Kansas; title: Abraham Lincoln at Indianapolis; title: Abraham Lincoln and Oregon; title: Black Friday: Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth; title: Lincoln and history. Churchill and Lincoln: guardians of democracy; title: Churchill and Lincoln: never give up.