The Life of Abraham Lincoln - Henry KetchamWhenever we talk of names such as
Abraham Lincoln we talk of characters of larger than life people who have never fall in their lifetime up until they were prematurely bitten the dust. His name, legacy, status and personal life is still relevant as if he used to live just a decade ago. He was ordained as the 16th president of United States of America and was from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserved the Union, and ended slavery. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, he was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives, but failed in two attempts at a seat in the United States Senate. He was an affectionate, though often absent, husband, and father of four children. For him to garner much support from the residents of the country Lincoln was an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, which he deftly articulated in his campaign debates and speeches. As a result, he secured the Republican nomination and was elected president in 1860. As president he concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort, always seeking to reunify the nation after the secession of the eleven Confederate States of America. He vigorously exercised unprecedented war powers, including the arrest and detention, without trial, of thousands of suspected secessionists. He issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and promoted the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery.
In this book that
Henry Ketcham wrote he tackles Abraham’s early childhood beginning to the point of political activity, his first initial military training to the unfortunate part where he was fataly assasinated whilst watching the theatre performance at Ford’s Theatre with his wife Marry Todd Lincoln together with their close friend couple Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris by then the popular American actor John Wilkes Booth who wanted to denunciate the ruling of Lincoln policy of freeing the slaves. The philosophical basis for Lincoln's beliefs regarding slavery and other issues of the day require that Lincoln be examined "seriously as a man of ideas." Coincidentally, Lincoln was killed on Good Friday, Lincoln's name was linked with the Republican Party, and synonymous with "freedom and union" during national elections. Many, though not all, in the South considered Lincoln as a man of outstanding ability, and it is no wonder they regard him as one of the greatest U.S presidents in history. The book is enlightening and has the genuine facts that resembled the life of the world’s most influential statesmen of all time.
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