The intimate world of Abraham Lincoln
By: C.A. Tripp ; edited by Lewis Gannett
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781560259275
Subjects: Friends and associates; Psychology; Presidents; Intimacy (Psychology); Character; Case studies; Biography; Relations with women
Description: Includes primary source material
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-331) and index.
Table of contents: title: "What stuff!"; title: Beginnings : early puberty, Reuben chronicles; title: The New Salem years : starting afresh : new faces, new beginnings; title: Ann Rutledge : then and now; title: Lincoln, Mary Owens, and the wilds of Lincoln wit; title: The curious case of Elmer Ellsworth; title: "Yours forever"; title: Marriage and Mary Todd; title: Lincoln, sex, and religion; title: Morals, ethics, and Leonard Swett's Lincoln; title: On Lincoln's sexuality, with extensions; title: Afterword : reactions and comments : I. A respectful dissent / by Michael Burlingame ; II. An enthusiastic endorsement / by Michael B. Chesson ; III. A psychologist's perspective / by Alice Fennessey; title: Appendix I : First chronicles of Reuben; title: Appendix II : The Speed letters; title: Appendix III : Letter from Leonard Swett to William H. Herndon.