Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln

by Virginia Fehrenbacher and Don E. Fehrenbacher

Book Overview

This is the first comprehensive collection of remarks attributed to Abraham Lincoln by his contemporaries. Much of what is known or believed about the man comes from such utterances, which have been an important part of Lincoln biography. About his mother, for instance, he never wrote anything beyond supplying a few routine facts, but he can be quoted as stating orally that she was the illegitimate daughter of a Virginia aristocrat. Similarly,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804726361
• ISBN13: 9780804726368
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"