Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LINCOLN READER (564 pp.)-Edlt-ed by Paul M. Angle-Rutgers University Press...
...publishing scholarly biographies, monographs on the pterodactyl or .the mud turtle, studies in the. syntax of Middle English or Middle High German prose. But some of them are broadening their lists, and now the young, enterprising Rutgers University .Press has gone streaking off on its own to corral a Lincoln volume for which almost any big-city commercial publisher would have mortgaged his corporate soul. The Book-of-the-Month Club has made it its February choice,* and 500,000 copies are in print...
...Lincoln Reader is a kind of patchwork-quilt biography, expertly and tidily done. Editor Paul M. Angle,* a Chicago historian and bibliographer, has taken extracts from 65 authors, great and small, and worked them into a running narrative of Lincoln's life...
...Abraham Lincoln sits at home as his young sons clamber over him; they "patted his cheeks, pulled his nose and poked their fingers in his eyes." The sons were roughnecks: "Willie and Tad . . . rifled the drawers and riddled boxes, battered the points of my gold pens against the stairs, turned over the inkstands on "the papers. ... I wanted to wring the necks of these brats and pitch them out of the windows...
...young Pound came east to Harvard to study for a year at the Law School but left the following spring for independent study and his father's lay office in Lincoln, Nebraska. Professor Pound has never taken an LL.B. in course but has been awarded the honarary Doctor of Laws 14 times...