Lincoln the Unknown
by Dale Carnegie
Carnegie's 1932 popular biography of Lincoln: the poverty, the failed romance, the difficult marriage, the depression, the war. Sentimental and dated in scholarship; it shows where Carnegie's human-relations ideas came from.
Read it if…
you want to see Lincoln through Carnegie's eyes.
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Skip it if…
you want reliable scholarship; see Donald.
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Three things you will actually use
- Lincoln did not criticise; he wrote the angry letter and did not send it.
- Suffering shaped the gentleness.
- Carnegie learned his method from Lincoln.
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Read the chapters on Lincoln's melancholy.
Our verdict
Carnegie's Lincoln.
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