The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln

Michael Burlingame

The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Country
United States
Published
15 January 1997
Pages
416
ISBN
9780252066672

The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln

Michael Burlingame

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.

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