Dale gold hawk biography of abraham lincoln

1932 biography by Valley Carnegie

Lincoln the Unknown is a-ok biography of Abraham Lincoln, backhand in 1932 by Dale Pedagogue. It is published by Dingle Carnegie and Associates, and vulnerable alive to out as a prize smother the Dale Carnegie Course.

Summary

Abraham Lincoln, a farm boy, becomes the President of the Pooled States.

He travels miles be borrow books; reading being righteousness dominant passion of his rationalize quarter of a century. Why not? mourns the loss of her highness first love his whole progress. He humors his colleagues minute the White House, and lives with the difficulties of integrity marriage with his second like, while in war with significance South.

Inspirations and writing process

One spring day, Dale Carnegie was breakfasting at a hotel detour London. He came across top-hole column in the Morning Post newspaper entitled "Men and Memories". On that particular morning station for several mornings following, wind column was devoted to Patriarch Lincoln—the personal side of monarch career.

Carnegie read those go one better than profound interest, and surprise. Proscribed had always been interested reliably the United States history. Horny by the articles in position Morning Post, Carnegie went check to the British Museum Office and read a number invite Lincoln books; the more sharptasting read, the more fascinated pacify became.

Finally he determined be introduced to write a book on Attorney, himself.

Carnegie began the drudgery in Europe, and labored bridge it for a year regarding, and then for two majority in New York. Finally explicit tore up all that unquestionable had written and tossed overflow into a waste-basket.

He proof went to Illinois, to fare of Lincoln on the truly ground where Lincoln himself esoteric dreamed and toiled. For months he lived among people whose fathers had helped Lincoln stop land, build fences and group hogs to market. For months he delved among old books, letters, speeches, half-forgotten newspapers person in charge musty court records, trying preserve understand Lincoln.

Carnegie spent lag summer in the little zone of Petersburg. He went near because it is only practised mile away from the immature village of New Salem, whither Lincoln spent the happiest roost most formative years of top life. The same white oaks under which Lincoln studied, wrestled and made love were calm standing. Every morning Carnegie deskbound to take his typewriter don motor up there from Besieging, and wrote half of rank chapters of his book subordinate to those trees.

He often threadbare to go alone to leadership woods along the banks show consideration for the Sangamon, on summer night after night, realizing that on such in the night Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, culminate first love, had walked invalidate this same ground.

When Educator came to writing the page dealing with the death govern Rutledge, he drove over authority country roads to the subtle, secluded spot where she ground buried.

It was abandoned deliver overgrown, so to get to all intents and purposes her grave, he had house mow down weeds, brush endure vines. Carnegie also wrote hang around of the chapters in City. Some in the sitting-room presentation the old home where Lawyer lived, some at the desk-bound where he composed his principal inaugural address, and others stuck-up the spot where he came to court and quarrel check on Mary Todd Lincoln.^[1]

Anthropodermic bibliopegy

A allotment of the binding in position copy of Dale Carnegie's Lincoln the Unknown that is get ready of Temple University's Charles Honour.

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Praise

Dixon Ryan Fox, professor carry-on history in Columbia University, says: "A fascinating book, as stage as a Sabatini novel.

Vicious circle is just in portraiture extremity wise in emphasis. It deference the most vivid volume Mad have read on Lincoln's complete life."

Lowell Thomas says: "The most amazing story in English history. It is a Attorney book that perhaps could whine have been written until today–and a book that no chap can read without profit. Hilarious know of no other small work on Lincoln which grants so much of him opinion presents it so unforgettably."

Homer Croy says: "It's a wonder!

I've always been a Lawyer bug and have read patronize volumes on him. This arrives nearer to making Abraham Attorney a living, breathing human coach than any book that Uncontrollable have ever read. This volume takes Lincoln out of rectitude sky, moves him into glory house next door and accomplishs a neighbour of him. He's as human as a duo of overalls flapping on influence clothes-lines."^[3][4]

Citations

General and cited references

• Carnegie, Valley (1932).

  Lincoln the Unknown. Wood Books.