The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln

Chancellor Naomi B Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies Michael Burlingame
University of Illinois Press
9780252066672
0-252-06667-7

Published to a flurry of praise--and consternation--from Lincoln scholars, Burlingame's book takes a hard and unsentimental look at, among other things, Abraham Lincoln's excruciating yet fruitful midlife.

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crisis, his marriage to a dishonest woman who often embarrassed and sometimes physically abused him, his estrangement from his father, his explosive temper, and his aversion to women.