Total Page : 500
Publisher : Tutis Digital Publishing Pvt Ltd
Publication Date : 2008 06 17
>> Honest Abe
An excellent look into the life of one of our most trreasured leaders This is worth your time to read
>> The Lincoln I never met
Growing up in Illinois I learned a great deal about Lincoln I even built a scale model of his home from a photograph But I never learned who the man was the sense of what he would like to talk to or as a neighbor This book filled that void in my eduacation a void that looks even more important in hindsight I understood the important decisions Lincoln had made and knew the dates he had made them But I never had been told why he made those decisions and had been so firm in his support of them It had always bothered me to be told someone was great because they had made great decisions But in this book we don t meet the famous Lincoln written about in today s history books In this book we met Lincoln as a contemporary of the author We meet the man Henry Ketcham knew And it is through his words that I finally got a sense of the man behind all those great decisions
Ketcham wrote this book only decades after Lincoln s death but in that time society and technology had both changed a bit For example he mentions how as a result of growing up earlier and on the frontier that Lincoln had not had such modern conveniences as gas lights in his home or sidewalks and paved roads I got a sense of just how rapidly technology was affecting society even then And it struck me even more powerfully than seeing the mock ups of frontier homes had If Lincoln s childhood had seemed rough to someone who thought gas lights were advanced he truly had it hard And the description of the house being open along one side had not made it into any of the books I had previously read I cannot imagine what winter must have been like for that family
When the inevitable ending comes it does so with more sorrow for what a man we lost not just a president but a person He had held himself to a very high standard while being compassionate enough to understand if others could not manage to hold themselves to the same He forgave others their weaknesses but strove to strengthen himself And he enjoyed a good book more than most while still able to tell a funny story well when it came to be his turn His heart had been broken but he worked to give what he could of what was left
I really feel as if I have only now met the real Abraham Lincoln And if you read only one book about him this should be that one
>> Lincoln
I ve loved Abraham Lincoln since I read a biography of him in the third grade for a book report There are no shortages of biographies of the great men in American History and they are all generally variations on the same stories that I learned in the third grade
This book is unique in that it is written by a general in the Union Army though he never mentions that in the book The author actually knew Lincoln fought for the Union and can knowledgably speak of the other generals and the civil war as he was involved
But this is not a book about Henry Ketcham much to his credit It s a loving book of Lincoln It is not a book to learn the history of the time though you do It s a book to make you feel as if you actually knew Lincoln Reading the Eulogies at the end of the book brings tears to your eyes and makes you realize what a truly great man he was Not just a great President that s obvious but a great man
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