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...Although Lincoln??s “melancholy” was well known among his contemporaries, it has been largely ignored by historians...
...There’s never been a book to focus on Lincoln??s melancholy and to gather together all of the material related to the melancholy and make sense of it,” Shenk says in a phone interview...
...Shenk’s personal experience with depression gives his version of Lincoln an underlying sympathy and sensitivity toward Lincoln??s forlorn thinking. But Shenk says that he has no personal agenda with this book other than to present a new view of Lincoln...
...onstage’ is different from the world we live in.” The fact that Lincoln and companion Joshua Speed were bedmates was not unusual in the nineteenth century, and “a frank avowal of our ignorance is the first step in honestly dealing with Lincoln??s sexuality,” Shenk writes...
When he writes of Lincoln??s views on slavery, Shenk is just as sensitive to Lincoln??s cultural environment. Shenk acknowledges that Lincoln was in no way fighting in favor of equal rights for African-Americans—only for the abolition of slavery as an institution...