Herndon's Informants
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-02328-6 (ISBN)
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More than 600 letters and interviews providing information about Abraham Lincoln's prepolitical and prelegal careers are included in this volume, a priceless collection never before available in one place. Women to whom Lincoln proposed marriage, political allies and adversaries, judges and fellow attorneys, longtime comrades, erstwhile friends--all speak out here in words first gathered by William H. Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, between 1865 and 1890. Historian David Herbert Donald has called Herndon's materials "the basic source for Abraham Lincoln's early years."
Some of those Herndon questioned were illiterate; others could read but barely write. Completion of this undertaking took the editors to three major collections for the mammoth task of transcribing documents that often were nearly illegible.
Invaluable to Lincoln scholars and intriguing to anyone curious about Lincoln and his times, the book includes an introduction, scholarly annotations, a registry of the informants, and a detailed topical index.
Douglas L. Wilson is the director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois. Rodney O. Davis (d. 2019) was co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College. They are the coeditors of Lincoln's Confidant: The Life of Noah Brooks, Herndon on Lincoln: Letters, Herndon's Lincoln, and The Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xiii
Editorial Note xxv
Short Citations and Abbreviations xxix
Herndon’s Informants: The Texts
1. Letters, Interviews, and Statements Collected by
William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, 1865–92 3
2. Informant Testimony Reported in Herndon’s Lincoln:
The True Story of a Great Life (1889) 707
3. Informant Testimony Reported in William H. Herndon’s
Letters to Jesse W. Weik 713
4. Informant Testimony Reported in Jesse W. Weik’s
The Real Lincoln (1922) 725
Register of Informants 737
Appendix: Brief Outline of the Joseph Hanks Family,
by Paul H. Verduin 779
Index 785
Co-Autor | Terry Wilson |
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Verlagsort | Baltimore |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-252-02328-5 / 0252023285 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-252-02328-6 / 9780252023286 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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