Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

American Civil War Biographies

Author: Joshua Wolf Shenk

Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other esteemed Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president harnessed his depression to fuel his astonishing success.,Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation’s worst crisis in the “coping strategies” he had developed over a lifetime of persevering through depressive epis….Read More

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