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Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed

Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Charles StrozierPublish date:2016-05-03Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231171328ISBN-10:231171323UPC:9780231171328Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United States, Presidents & Heads of StateBook Topic:19th Century, Civil War Period (1850-1877)Size:9.10 x 6.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SC4QVJT0HZ

On April 15, 1837, a "long, gawky" Abraham Lincoln walked into Joshua Speed's dry-goods store in Springfield, Illinois, and asked what it would cost to buy the materials for a bed. Speed said seventeen dollars, which Lincoln didn't have. He asked for a loan to cover that amount until Christmas. Speed was taken with his visitor, but, as he said later, "I never saw so gloomy and melancholy a face." Speed suggested Lincoln stay with him in a room over his store for free and share his large double bed. What began would become one of the most important friendships in American history.

Speed was Lincoln's closest confidant, offering him invaluable support after the death of his first love, Ann Rutledge, and during his rocky courtship of Mary Todd. Lincoln needed Speed for guidance, support, and empathy. Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln is a rich analysis of a relationship that was both a model of male friendship and a specific dynamic between two brilliant but fascinatingly flawed men who played off each other's strengths and weaknesses to launch themselves in love and life. Their friendship resolves important questions about Lincoln's early years and adds significant psychological depth to our understanding of our sixteenth president.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231171328ISBN-10:231171323UPC:9780231171328Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United States, Presidents & Heads of StateBook Topic:19th Century, Civil War Period (1850-1877)Size:9.10 x 6.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SC4QVJT0HZ
Charles B. Strozier, a historian and psychoanalyst, is a professor of history at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and faculty, training, and supervising analyst at TRISP in New York City. His books include Lincoln's Quest for Union: Public and Private Meanings (1982) and Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses (2011).
Publisher: Columbia University Press

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