Friendships never came easy for a man as private and as mysterious as Abraham Lincoln. Donald penetrates Lincoln's mysterious reserve to offer a new picture of the President's inner life and to explain his unsurpassed political skills. Professor Donald's remarkable book offers a fresh way of looking at Abraham Lincoln, both as a man who needed friendship and as a leader who understood the importance of friendship in the management of men. He won their devotion, and they became his most ardent supporters and, ultimately, his official biographers. Always at his best when dealing with young men, he served as a role model, and they, in effect, were his surrogate family. Lincoln's closest, and most genuine, friendships while he was in the White House were with his private secretaries, John G.
With psychological insight and charm, Lincoln gained Seward's friendship and secured his loyal support. Seward, who thought he was better qualified than the President for his job. In his greatest triumph of friendship, Lincoln won over his powerful, opinionated Secretary of State, William H. This useful friendship dissolved when the two men disagreed over emancipation, and Browning became further alienated when Lincoln three times passed over the opportunity to name him tothe United States Supreme Court. Browning became his confidant and, under Lincoln's skillful guidance, served as his strongest supporter in Congress. When he was elected President, Lincoln had no close personal friends in Washington until Illinois Senator Orville H. He became Herndon's mentor and hero, and Herndon's idealization of him satisfied one of Lincoln's basic psychological needs. After Speed returned to Kentucky, Lincoln developed a close relationship with his younger law partner, William H. These two young men confided everything to each other, and they even helped each other as they diffidently sought brides. Not until 1837, when he met Joshua Fry Speed, with whom he shared a room and bed for the next four years, did he learn the real meaning of friendship.
""We Are Lincoln Men"" shows how Lincoln's experiences as a boy growing up in frontier Indiana made it hard for him to develop warm, supportive relationships later in life. In this highly original book, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald examines, for the first time, these close friendships and explores their role in shaping Lincoln's career. Behind his mask of affability and endless stream of humorous anecdotes, he maintained an inviolate reserve that only a few were ever able to penetrate. Though Lincoln had hundreds of acquaintances and dozens of admirers, he had almost no intimate friends. Item #233980 ISBN: 0743254686 ""We Are Lincoln Men"" examines the significance of friendship in Abraham Lincoln's life and the role it played in his presidency. Donald, David Herbert We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends
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