Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

At six years of age, for a few weeks in the fall of 1815, in the town of Knob Creek, Hardin County, Kentucky, the boy went to his first school, taught by a typical frontier teacher commissioned by local parents to provide children with basic skills and only sufficiently knowledgeable himself to rise modestly above that level. Teachers were in short supply on the frontier that ran along the western ridge of the Appalachians; beyond was the sparsely settled western portion of Ohio and the territor

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Lincoln Th e B i o g r a p h y o f a W r i ter Fred Kaplan To the memory of my father, Isaac Kaplan (1906 1987); and to Hattie M. Strelitz, the teacher who, on the Lower East Side of New York City in December 1918, awarded him a copy of The Perfect Tribute, an idealistic myth about the writing of the Gettysburg Address. It was given to him for “Proﬁciency and Excellent Class Spirit” and came into my hands a generation later. It impressed me deeply with a truth that empowers us all: the power of Lincoln’s language. Contents Reading Lincoln’s Words 1 C H A P T E R 1 “All the Books He Could Lay His Hands On,” 1809–1825 3 C H A P T E R 2 Shakespeare, 1825–1834 30 C H A P T E R 3 Burns, Byron, and Love Letters, 1834–1837 60 C H A P T E R 4 “How Miserably Things Seem to Be Arranged,” 1837–1842 99 C H A P T E R 5 “Were I President,” 1842–1849 144 C H A P T E R 6 “Honest Seeking,” 1849–1854 198 C H A P T E R 7 “The Current of Events,” 1855–1861 242 ... - tailieumienphi.vn

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