Lincoln, the unknown

270 Pages·2012·12.17 MB·English

by  Carnegie, Dale, 1888-1955

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LINCOLN ROOM

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

LIBRARY

MEMORIAL

the Class of 1901

founded by

HARLAN HOYT HORNER

and

HENRIETTA CALHOUN HORNER

LINCOLN THE UNKNOWN

LINCOLN THE UNKNOWN

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DALE CARNEGIE

Lincoln

THE UNKNOWN

DALE CARNEGIE & ASSOCIATES, INC.

GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT,
1932, BY DALE CARNEGIE

COPYRIGHT © 1959 BY DOROTHY CARNEGIE

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE

RIGHT TO REPRODUCE
THIS
BOOK, OR

PORTIONS THEREOF,
IN ANY FORM.

Seventh Printing 1968

Printed in the United States of America

To

My Father and Mother

HOW THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN—

AND WHY

One spring day, some years
ago,
I was breakfasting
in the

Hotel Dysart, London; and, as usual,
I was trying to winnow

a
bit
of American news from
the columns
of
the "Morning

Post." Ordinarily
I found none, but on that fortunate morning

I made a strike rich and unexpected.

The
late T.
P. O'Connor, reputed "Father of the House of

Commons," conducted in those days a column in the "Morning
Post" entitled "Men and Memories." On that particular morn-

ing, and
for several mornings
following, "Tay
Pay's" column

was devoted
to Abraham Lincoln—not to
his
political
activi-

ties but
to the personal side of his career:
to
his sorrows, his

repeated
failures, his poverty, his great love for Ann Rutledge,

and his tragic marriage to Mary Todd.

I read the series with profound interest—and surprise.
I had

spent the
first twenty years of my
life
in the Middle West, not

far from
the Lincoln country; and,
in
addition
to
that,
I had

always been keenly interested in United States history.
I should

have said that of course
I knew Lincoln's life-story; but I soon

discovered
that
I
didn't. The fact
is that
I, an American, had

had to come to London and read a series of articles written by
an Irishman,
in an English newspaper, before
I realized that the

story of Lincoln's career was one of the most fascinating tales

in
all the annals of mankind.
Was
this lamentable ignorance peculiar to me?
I wondered.