Lincoln's melancholy how depression challenged a president and fueled his greatness
Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other esteemed Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president harnessed depression to fuel his astonishing success. Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation's worst crisis in the "coping s...
| Main Author: | Shenk, Joshua Wolf (Author) |
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| Corporate Authors: | Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Co.,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- The community said he was crazy
- A fearful gift
- I am now the most miserable man living
- A self-made man
- A misfortune, not a fault
- The reign of reason
- The vents of my moods and gloom
- Its precise shape and color
- The fiery trial through which we pass
- Comes wisdom to us.