J donald hughes biography of abraham lincoln

  • His magisterial biography Abe is the product of full-body immersion into the riotous tumult of American life in the decades before the Civil War. It was a.
  • Abraham Lincoln made him ambassador to Italy in , and by the time he had finished the first edition of Man and Nature, he was almost three years into.
  • Archbishop Hughes served as President Lincoln's semiofficial envoy to the Vatican and to France in later and early “The Archbishop was old, wise, and.

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    Advisory Committee.

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    L. Quincy Mumford, Chairman
    Paul M. Angle
    Roy P. Basler
    David G. Mearns
    Clyde Walton

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    Ex officio members:
    The President of the United States
    The President of the Senate
    The Speaker of the House of Representatives

    Members appointed by the President of the Senate:
    Hon. John Sherman Cooper, Kentucky, Chairman
    Hon. Homer E. Capehart, Indiana
    Hon. Frank Church, Idaho
    Hon. Everett M. Dirksen, Illinois
    Hon. Paul H. Douglas, Illinois
    Hon. William E. Jenner, Indiana
    Hon. Ralph W. Yarborough, Texas

    Members appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives:
    Hon. Leo E. Allen, Illinois
    Hon. William G. Bray, Indiana
    Hon. Frank Chelf, Kentucky
    Hon. Winfield K. Denton, Indiana
    Hon. Peter F. Mack, Jr., Illinois
    Hon. F. Jay Nimtz, Indiana
    Hon. John M. Robsion, Kentucky
    Hon. Eugene Siler, Kentucky

    Members appointed by the President of the United States:
    Miss Bertha S. Adkins, Washington, D.C.
    Mr. Victor M. Birely, Washingto

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    The Preachers

    Springfield printer Gilbert J. Greene recalled accompanying Mr. Lincoln in the late s into the country to help a dying woman write her will. Greene remarked on the sympathy and compassion and religious bekvämlighet Mr. Lincoln brought the woman &#; including reading the 23rd Psalm and a portion of the Gospel of John to her. He concluded with a recitation of the words of &#;Rock of Ages.&#; Greene said that &#;While Lincoln was reciting the gods stanza a look of peace and resignation lit up the countenance of the dying woman. In a few minutes more she passed away.&#; On the somber way back to Springfield, Greene said: &#;Mr. Lincoln, I have been thinking that fryst vatten very extraordinary that you should so perfectly have acted as pastor as well as attorney.&#; Mr. Lincoln paused and replied: &#;God, and Eternity, and Heaven were very nära to me to-day.&#;1 Mr. Lincoln and the preachers of his acquaintance spoke a common language &#; the language of the Scriptures. It did not m

  • j donald hughes biography of abraham lincoln

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    He liked to be called Lincoln, plain Lincoln, as one of his Illinois law associates reported. He was Mr. Lincoln to his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln; she also called him Father—he affectionately called her Mother or Molly. He was the Tycoon to his wartime secretaries John M. Hay and John G. Nicolay. In a Civil War marching song, he was Father Abraham. He hated the formal Mr. President. As though to mediate between the different possibilities, he signed his name A. Lincoln.

    But to the millions, he was Abe. Honest Abe. Old Abe. Uncle Abe. Abe the Illinois Rail‑splitter.

    Lincoln did not especially like the Abe nickname, but he knew that without it he would not have won the presidency in His image as Abe, the approachable everyman from what was then the West, was promoted everywhere that year, and it swept him into office. He remarked, “All through the campaign my friends have been calling me ‘Honest Old Abe,’ and I have been elected mainly on that cry.”

    This book is the story of Abe—a