Lincoln's Sense of Humor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lincoln's Sense of Humor write by Richard Carwardine. This book was released on 2017-10-23. Lincoln's Sense of Humor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Abraham Lincoln was the first president consistently to make storytelling and laughter tools of office. This book shows how his uses of humor evolved to fit changing personal circumstances, and explores its versatility, range of expressions, and multiple sources"--
Lincoln Tells a Joke
Lincoln Tells a Joke - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lincoln Tells a Joke write by Kathleen Krull. This book was released on 2010-04-01. Lincoln Tells a Joke available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Poor Abraham Lincoln! His life was hardly fun at all. A country torn in two by war, citizens who didn’t like him as president, a homely appearance—what could there possibly be to laugh about? And yet he did laugh. Lincoln wasn’t just one of our greatest presidents. He was a comic storyteller and a person who could lighten a grim situation with a clever quip. This unusual biography of Lincoln highlights his life and presidency, focusing on what made his sense of humor so distinctive—and so necessary to surviving his tough life and times.
Abe Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter
Abe Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Abe Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter write by Paul M. Zall. This book was released on 2007. Abe Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abraham Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter, a substantial revision of P. M. Zall's 1982 classic, Abe Lincoln Laughing, consists of stories, jokes, and anecdotes on a wide range of topics by and about Abraham Lincoln before and after he became president. Establishing which tales are authentic and which are frauds and delusions, Abraham Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter includes stories derived from Lincoln's writings and speeches; writings by others up to April 1865; post-Civil War writings by those who knew him; and writings by others about Lincoln in later decades, including a sample from the twentieth century. Within each group, entries are arranged in the order they appeared in print. The volume contains notes, a bibliography, an index of the entries by section, and a subject index.
Lincoln's Melancholy
Lincoln's Melancholy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lincoln's Melancholy write by Joshua Wolf Shenk. This book was released on 2006-10-02. Lincoln's Melancholy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A nuanced psychological portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles. Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk’s Lincoln’s Melancholy reveals how this illness influenced both the President’s character and his leadership. Mired in personal suffering as a young man, Lincoln forged a hard path toward mental health. Shenk draws on seven years of research from historical record, interviews with Lincoln scholars, and contemporary research on depression to understand the nature of Lincoln’s unhappiness. In the process, Shenk discovers that the President’s coping strategies—among them, a rich sense of humor and a tendency toward quiet reflection—ultimately helped him to lead the nation through its greatest turmoil. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post Book World, Atlanta Journal-Constituion, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette As Featured on the History Channel documentary Lincoln “Fresh, fascinating, provocative.”—Sanford D. Horwitt, San Francisco Chronicle “Some extremely beautiful prose and fine political rhetoric and leaves one feeling close to Lincoln, a considerable accomplishment.”—Andrew Solomon, New York Magazine “A profoundly human and psychologically important examination of the melancholy that so pervaded Lincoln's life.”—Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., author of An Unquiet Mind
The National Joker
The National Joker - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The National Joker write by Todd Nathan Thompson. This book was released on 2015-07-08. The National Joker available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover
