{"product_id":"abraham-lincoln-a-life-9781421451664","title":"Abraham Lincoln: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, freedom, and democracy, Abraham Lincoln is arguably the most studied and admired of all Americans. Michael Burlingame's astonishing \u003ci\u003eAbraham Lincoln: A Life, \u003c\/i\u003eedited and abridged by Jonathan W. White, offers fresh interpretations of this endlessly fascinating American leader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on deep research in unpublished sources as well as newly digitized sources, this work reveals how Lincoln's character and personality were the North's secret weapon in the Civil War, the key variables that spelled the difference between victory and defeat. He was a model of psychological maturity and a fully individuated man whose influence remains unrivaled in the history of American public life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBurlingame chronicles Lincoln's childhood and early development, romantic attachments and losses, his love of learning, legal training, and courtroom career as well as his political ambition, his term as congressman in the late 1840s, and his serious bouts of depression in early adulthood. Burlingame recounts, in fresh detail, the Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln marriage and traces the mounting moral criticism of slavery that revived his political career and won this Springfield lawyer the presidency in 1860. This abridgement delivers Burlingame's signature insight into Lincoln as a young man, a father, and a politician.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLincoln speaks to us not only as a champion of freedom, democracy, and national unity but also as a source of inspiration. Few have achieved his historical importance, but many can profit from his personal example, encouraged by the knowledge that despite a lifetime of troubles, he became a model of psychological maturity, moral clarity, and unimpeachable integrity. His presence and his leadership inspired his contemporaries; his life story will do the same for generations to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Burlingame\u003c\/b\u003e (MYSTIC, CT) is Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield. He is the author or editor of several books about Lincoln, including \u003ci\u003eLincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAn American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eJonathan W. White\u003c\/b\u003e (NEWPORT NEWS, VA) is an associate professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University. He has written and edited more than a dozen books on the Civil War era, including \u003ci\u003eA House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51805499162898,"sku":"9781421451664","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a58f0d99-49b9-4485-9233-69f6f653a043.jpg?v=1773738341","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/abraham-lincoln-a-life-9781421451664","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}