Herndon on Lincoln: Letters

by William Henry Herndon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252039815
• ISBN13: 9780252039812
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"