Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln is written by Lord Charnwood and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1499201788 (ISBN 10) and 9781499201789 (ISBN 13).

Godfrey Rathbone Benson (1864-1945) - author, politician and philanthropist - was the 1st Baron Charnwood, and under the name Lord Charnwood in 1916 he wrote this biography of Abraham Lincoln. It has been considered to be one of the best biographies of Lincoln written in the first generations after his death."[Lincoln] was misunderstood and underrated in his lifetime, and even yet has hardly come to his own. For his place is among the great men of the earth. To them he belongs by right of his immense power of hard work, his unfaltering pursuit of what seemed to him right, and above all by that childlike directness and simplicity of vision which none but the greatest carry beyond their earliest years. It is fit that the first considered attempt by an Englishman to give a picture of Lincoln, the great hero of America's struggle for the noblest cause, should come at a time when we in England are passing through as fiery a trial for a cause we feel to be as noble. It is a time when we may learn much from Lincoln's failures and success, from his patience, his modesty, his serene optimism and his eloquence, so simple and so magnificent."