Herndon on Lincoln: Letters William H. Herndon by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis (editors) - 2016

University of Illinois Press, 2016-01-13. Hardcover. Used: Good.

University of Illinois Press, 2016-01-13. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Hardback. New. 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… Read More

Univ of Illinois Pr, 2016. Hardcover. New. 408 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.25 inches.