Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [504]
“no small part…to comprehend”: AL, quoted in ibid., pp. 312–13.
having translated the stories…young listeners: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, and Dennis F. Hanks interview, September 8, 1865, in HI, pp. 42, 104; Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 107.
subscription schools: Donald, Lincoln, p. 29.
“No qualification…wizzard”: AL, “Autobiography written for Jesse W. Fell,” December 20, 1859, in CW, III, p. 511.
“by littles”…pick up on his own: AL, “Scripps autobiography,” in CW, IV, p. 62.
“he could lay his hands on”: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, in HI, p. 41; Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 107; John S. Houghland interview, September 17, 1865, in ibid., p. 130.
“a luxury…the middle class”: Fidler, “Young Limbs of the Law,” p. 249.
obtained copies of: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 15; Nathaniel Grigsby interview, September 12, 1865, in HI, p. 112; Charles B. Strozier, Lincoln’s Quest for Union: Public and Private Meanings (New York: Basic Books, 1982), p. 231.
“his eyes sparkled…could not sleep”: David Herbert Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era, 3rd edn. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956; New York: Vintage Books, 2001), pp. 67–68.
“the great mass…to perform”: AL, “Second Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions,” [February 11, 1859], in CW, III, pp. 362–63.
“as unpoetical…of the earth”: AL to Andrew Johnston, April 18, 1846, in CW, I, p. 378.
“There is no Frigate…Lands away”: Emily Dickinson, “There is no Frigate like a Book,” The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1960), p. 553.
the Revised Statutes…and political thought: Helen Nicolay, Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Century Co., 1912), pp. 66–68.
Everywhere he went: Nathaniel Grigsby interview, September 12, 1865, in HI, p. 113.
“When he came across”…memorized: Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 107.
The story is often recounted…“on a stalk”: Oliver C. Terry to JWW, July 1888, in ibid., p. 662.
Lincoln wrote poems…Crawford’s large nose: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, in ibid., p. 41; A. H. Chapman statement, ante September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 101.
“Josiah blowing his bugle”: AL, “Chronicles of Reuben,” as paraphrased in Herndon and Weik, Herndon’s Life of Lincoln, p. 47.
Seward had only to pick: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 19–22, 31–35.
regarded as odd and indolent: Herndon and Weik, Herndon’s Life of Lincoln, p. 38; Dennis Hanks interview, September 8, 1865, in HI, p. 104.
“particular Care…of his own accord”: Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 108.
When he found…could continue: Matilda Johnston Moore interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 110.
destroyed his books…abused him: Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 38–39.
father’s decision to hire him out: Swett, “Lincoln’s Story of His Own Life,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice, p. 70.
the “self-made” men in Lincoln’s generation: Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution, p. 231; Wiebe, The Opening of American Society, p. 271.
The same “longing to rise”: de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, p. 627.
departed…bundled on his shoulder: Swett, “Lincoln’s Story of His Own Life,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice, pp. 71–72.
New Salem was a budding town: Benjamin P. Thomas, Lincoln’s New Salem (Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1934; 1947), p. 15.
to “keep body and soul together”: AL, “Scripps autobiography,” in CW, IV, p. 65.
Lincoln in New Salem: Thomas, Lincoln’s New Salem, pp. 41–77; Mentor Graham to WHH, May 29, 1865, in HI, pp. 9–10; Wilson, Honor’s Voice, pp. 59–67.
“studied with nobody”: AL, “Scripps autobiography,” in CW, IV, p. 65.
He buried himself…Equity Jurisprudence: Donald, Lincoln, p. 55; Thomas, Abraham Lincoln,