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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Herndon, William Henry (1818-1891)
Titre(s) : Herndon on Lincoln [Texte imprimé] : letters / William H. Herndon ; edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis
Publication : Urbana : The Knox College Lincoln Studies Center : University of Illinois Press, copyright
[2016]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxv, 371 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection : The Knox College Lincoln Studies Center series
Lien à la collection : The Knox college Lincoln studies center series
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
After Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, William H. Herndon began work on a
brief, "subjective" biography of his former law partner, but his research turned up
such unexpected and often startling information that it became a lifelong obsession.
The biography finally published in 1889, Herndon's Lincoln, was a collaboration with
Jesse W. Weik in which Herndon provided the materials and Weik did almost all the
writing. For this reason, and because so much of what Herndon had to say about Lincoln
was not included in the biography, David Donald has observed, "To understand Herndon's
own rather peculiar approach to Lincoln biography, one must go back to his letters."
An exhaustive collection of what Herndon was told by others about Lincoln was published
by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis in Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews,
and Statements about Abraham Lincoln . In this new volume, Wilson and Davis have produced
a comprehensive edition of what Herndon himself wrote about Lincoln in his own letters.
Because of Herndon's close association with Lincoln, his intimate acquaintance with
his partner's legal and political careers, and because he sought out informants who
knew Lincoln and preserved information that might otherwise have been lost, his letters
have become an indispensable resource for Lincoln biography. Unfiltered by a collaborator
and rendered in Herndon's own distinctive voice, these letters constitute a matchless
trove of primary source material. Herndon on Lincoln: Letters is a must for libraries,
research institutions, and students of a towering American figure and his times
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Wilson, Douglas L. (1935-....). Éditeur scientifique
Davis, Rodney O.. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
Genre ou forme : Correspondance
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780252039812. - ISBN 0252039815. - ISBN 9780252084805. - ISBN 0252084802. -
ISBN 9780252097928 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47018963z
Notice n° :
FRBNF47018963
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