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Lincoln the President #1
Lincoln The President, Volume One
First published in four volumes in 1945, 1952 and 1955, J.G. Randall's "Lincoln the President" is here reprinted in two. The first covers Lincoln's life as far as Gettysburg, focusing mainly on his presidential administration. The second concentrates on Lincoln the person - his conversation, his personality, his daily tasks, his marriage, his sense of humour - and covers his life from the period of the Emancipation Proclamation up to the final triumph of Appomattox and his untimely death.
439 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1945
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James G. Randall
24 books6 followersNamed after U.S. President James A. Garfield, James Garfield Randall was an American historian specializing on Abraham Lincoln and the era of the American Civil War. He was known for his systematic, scientific methodology based on thorough study of primary sources, his mastery of constitutional issues, and his neutrality regarding North and South.
Randall earned a B.A. degree at Butler College (1903), and a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago (1912). He taught at the University of Illinois, (1920–1950), where David Herbert Donald was one of his students. His multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln remains a major resource for scholars. He was president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association 1939-1940. His wife Ruth Painter Randall wrote Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage (1953). His The Civil War and Reconstruction (1937) was for many years the most important history of the era.
Randall earned a B.A. degree at Butler College (1903), and a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago (1912). He taught at the University of Illinois, (1920–1950), where David Herbert Donald was one of his students. His multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln remains a major resource for scholars. He was president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association 1939-1940. His wife Ruth Painter Randall wrote Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage (1953). His The Civil War and Reconstruction (1937) was for many years the most important history of the era.
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June 4, 2016
Solid summary of Lincoln's political life from inauguration to Gettysburg. The last chapter is a wonderful elegiac meditation on the Gettysburg Address, almost worth slogging through this tome to get to it. Book is a little dated, and in the early chapters Randall engages in really off-putting defense of "Southern culture." He also puts up a spirited defense of Gen'l McClellan, something rarely encountered in the literature.
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