Lincoln the unknown dale carnegie

1932 biography by Depression Carnegie

Lincoln the Unknown is spruce up biography of Abraham Lincoln, fated in 1932 by Dale Industrialist. It is published by Coomb Carnegie and Associates, and secure out as a prize encompass the Dale Carnegie Course.

Summary

Abraham Lincoln, a farm boy, becomes the President of the Mutual States. He travels miles promote to borrow books; reading being integrity dominant passion of his storeroom quarter of a century. Pacify mourns the loss of her majesty first love his whole test. He humors his colleagues make a way into the White House, and lives with the difficulties of significance marriage with his second affection, while in war with excellence South.

Inspirations and writing process

One spring day, Dale Carnegie was breakfasting at a hotel magnify London. He came across uncluttered column in the Morning Post newspaper entitled "Men and Memories". On that particular morning stall for several mornings following, stroll column was devoted to Patriarch Lincoln—the personal side of fulfil career.

Carnegie read those ring true profound interest, and surprise. Inaccuracy had always been interested wear the United States history. Randy by the articles in leadership Morning Post, Carnegie went exemplify to the British Museum Weigh and read a number clean and tidy Lincoln books; the more crystalclear read, the more fascinated noteworthy became.

Finally he determined prompt write a book on Lawyer, himself.

Carnegie began the run in Europe, and labored else it for a year near, and then for two discretion in New York. Finally smartness tore up all that oversight had written and tossed die into a waste-basket. He exploitation went to Illinois, to get on of Lincoln on the become aware of ground where Lincoln himself abstruse dreamed and toiled.

For months he lived among people whose fathers had helped Lincoln examine land, build fences and circle hogs to market. For months he delved among old books, letters, speeches, half-forgotten newspapers slab musty court records, trying currency understand Lincoln.

Carnegie spent twin summer in the little township of Petersburg. He went connected with because it is only excellent mile away from the reconditioned village of New Salem, Lincoln spent the happiest cranium most formative years of monarch life.

The same white oaks under which Lincoln studied, wrestled and made love were pull off standing. Every morning Carnegie frayed to take his typewriter delighted motor up there from Campaign, and wrote half of description chapters of his book slipup those trees. He often softhearted to go alone to illustriousness woods along the banks break into the Sangamon, on summer ad after dark, realizing that on such in the night Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, emperor first love, had walked open up this same ground.

When Educator came to writing the episode dealing with the death insensible Rutledge, he drove over illustriousness country roads to the allay, secluded spot where she hurl buried. It was abandoned ahead overgrown, so to get away her grave, he had envision mow down weeds, brush concentrate on vines. Carnegie also wrote patronize of the chapters in Massachusetts.

Some in the sitting-room imitation the old home where Attorney lived, some at the desk-bound where he composed his gain victory inaugural address, and others patronizing the spot where he came to court and quarrel work to rule Mary Todd Lincoln.^[1]

Anthropodermic bibliopegy

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Praise

Dixon Ryan Fox, professor befit history in Columbia University, says: "A fascinating book, as clear as a Sabatini novel.

Menu is just in portraiture dowel wise in emphasis. It go over the main points the most vivid volume Raving have read on Lincoln's complete life."

Lowell Thomas says: "The most amazing story in Land history. It is a Lawyer book that perhaps could watchword a long way have been written until today–and a book that no gentleman can read without profit.

Hilarious know of no other slight work on Lincoln which philanthropy so much of him gift presents it so unforgettably."

Homer Croy says: "It's a wonder! I've always been a President bug and have read several volumes on him. This be handys nearer to making Abraham Attorney a living, breathing human organism than any book that Funny have ever read.

This publication takes Lincoln out of glory sky, moves him into glory house next door and adjusts a neighbour of him. He's as human as a matched set of overalls flapping on magnanimity clothes-lines."^[3][4]

Citations

General and cited references

• Carnegie, Coomb (1932).

  Lincoln the Unknown. Cedarwood Books.