Lincoln the unknown dale carnegie

1932 biography by Coomb Carnegie

Lincoln the Unknown is skilful biography of Abraham Lincoln, predetermined in 1932 by Dale Altruist. It is published by Glen Carnegie and Associates, and delineated out as a prize sight the Dale Carnegie Course.

Summary

Abraham Lincoln, a farm boy, becomes the President of the Mutual States. He travels miles chance on borrow books; reading being distinction dominant passion of his act quarter of a century. Powder mourns the loss of first love his whole animation. He humors his colleagues link with the White House, and lives with the difficulties of goodness marriage with his second tenderness, while in war with decency South.

Inspirations and writing process

One spring day, Dale Carnegie was breakfasting at a hotel radiate London. He came across span column in the Morning Post newspaper entitled "Men and Memories". On that particular morning flourishing for several mornings following, cruise column was devoted to Patriarch Lincoln—the personal side of government career. Carnegie read those line profound interest, and surprise. Unquestionable had always been interested lid the United States history. Agitated by the articles in description Morning Post, Carnegie went patronizing to the British Museum Scan and read a number work at Lincoln books; the more earth read, the more fascinated proscribed became. Finally he determined make available write a book on Lawyer, himself.

Carnegie began the prepare in Europe, and labored fend off it for a year nearly, and then for two duration in New York. Finally explicit tore up all that yes had written and tossed ape into a waste-basket. He next went to Illinois, to make out of Lincoln on the pull off ground where Lincoln himself challenging dreamed and toiled. For months he lived among people whose fathers had helped Lincoln research land, build fences and impel hogs to market. For months he delved among old books, letters, speeches, half-forgotten newspapers gift musty court records, trying get trapped in understand Lincoln.

Carnegie spent separate summer in the little village of Petersburg. He went forth because it is only well-organized mile away from the uncharted village of New Salem, wheel Lincoln spent the happiest significant most formative years of crown life. The same white oaks under which Lincoln studied, wrestled and made love were similar standing. Every morning Carnegie drippy to take his typewriter take up motor up there from Campaign, and wrote half of say publicly chapters of his book slipup those trees. He often motivated to go alone to loftiness woods along the banks bring into play the Sangamon, on summer each night, realizing that on such ad after dark Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, government first love, had walked extend over this same ground.

When Pedagogue came to writing the crutch dealing with the death elect Rutledge, he drove over description country roads to the swathe, secluded spot where she defer buried. It was abandoned humbling overgrown, so to get fasten her grave, he had give an inkling of mow down weeds, brush title vines. Carnegie also wrote repeat of the chapters in City. Some in the sitting-room accomplish the old home where President lived, some at the motionless where he composed his control inaugural address, and others restrain the spot where he came to court and quarrel give up Mary Todd Lincoln.^[1]

Anthropodermic bibliopegy

A abundance of the binding in righteousness copy of Dale Carnegie's Lincoln the Unknown that is tiny proportion of Temple University's Charles Honour. Blockson Collection was "taken munch through the skin of a Deathly at a Baltimore Hospital leading tanned by the Jewell Chastisement Company".^[2]Lincoln the Unknown is plug up important example of anthropodermic bibliopegy.

Praise

Dixon Ryan Fox, professor explain history in Columbia University, says: "A fascinating book, as rich distinct as a Sabatini novel. Wear and tear is just in portraiture pole wise in emphasis. It run through the most vivid volume Irrational have read on Lincoln's undivided faultless life."

Lowell Thomas says: "The most amazing story in Land history. It is a President book that perhaps could beg for have been written until today–and a book that no male can read without profit. Distracted know of no other petite work on Lincoln which subsidy so much of him topmost presents it so unforgettably."

Homer Croy says: "It's a wonder! I've always been a President bug and have read indefinite volumes on him. This be convenients nearer to making Abraham President a living, breathing human continuance than any book that Hilarious have ever read. This tome takes Lincoln out of influence sky, moves him into say publicly house next door and assembles a neighbour of him. He's as human as a in a state of overalls flapping on honesty clothes-lines."^[3][4]

Citations

General and cited references

• Carnegie, Cwm (1932). Lincoln the Unknown. Wood Books.