Lincoln as I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies

Editor Harold Holzer sifted through nineteenth century letters, diary entries, books, and speeches written by people who actually met Abraham Lincoln and offers up the scoop on America's greatest president. Turns out that Lincoln was a terrible dresser, loved raunchy stories, and let his kids run all over him. In Lincoln As I Knew Him we learn this and much more about an extraordinary man who made a lasting impression on everyone who met him. From the famous---Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Ulysses S. Grant---to the not-so-famous---White House secretaries, artists, bodyguards, childhood pals, and rejected fiancees---this collection provides an insider's look at the man. The result is a folksy, revealing, and, at times, contradictory view of the President: Assistant Secretary of War Charles A.