The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5121579 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Burlingame, Edward M Wheat |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-7 |
| Publication date | 1995-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Reviews of New Books (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-2759 • E-ISSN: 1930-8280 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03612759.1995.9949128 |
| OpenAlex | W4302589516 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Abraham Lincoln's excruciating, yet highly productive, midlife crisis; his woeful marriage to a dishonest woman who often embarrassed and sometimes physically abused him; his intense estrangement from a shiftless father; his streak of cruelty; his explosive temper; and his aversion to women are among the topics covered by Michael Burlingame in The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln. Based primarily on long-neglected manuscript and newspaper sources - especially on reminiscences of people who knew Lincoln - this psychobiography casts new light on the emotional origins of Lincoln's deep hatred of slavery, on his transformation from a party hack to a statesman, on his relations with his family, on the causes of his depressions, and on the roots of his ambition. Burlingame uses a blend of Freudian and Jungian theory to interpret the psyche of the sixteenth president
Art · Environmental ethics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2024 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |