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Title: Biographies and stories of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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ne thing or the other, I must regainmy confidence in my own ability to keepmy resolves when they are made. Resolution. Why does it matter howmuch Lincoln agonized over marriage?Quite frankly, scholars say, because thiswas one of the few times in his life thata man who would become known for hissingle-minded determination actuallywavered. He didnt snap out of his gloomfor over a year, when he finally returnedto Mary, asked her forgiveness, andthen married her in ahastily arranged ceremo-ny. After that, the debil-itating episodes of theTiypo —as Lincoln calledhis depressions—did notrecur, writes Wilson,and instead of strugglingwith self-doubt, Lincolnbecame known for his resolution. Fromthen on, James McPherson wrote in theNew York Review of Books, once hemade a decision, he stuck with it—a mat-ter of no small importance when the is-sues became Union or Disunion. Victoryor Defeat. Slavery or Freedom. As Lin-coln would famously tell those who op-posed his Emancipation Proclamation,
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HONEST ABE, FLESH AND BLOOD SPRINGFIELD, ILL.-Tohear its backers talk, thehigh-tech Abraham Lin-coln museum opening herethis spring is designed to savethe 16th president from a fateworse than death: being bor-ing. Washington was em-balmed while still alive andstill hasnt recovered, saysRichard Norton Smith, direc-tor of the new Abraham Lin-coln Presidential Library andMuseum. Which is why nowhiz or bang has been spared:Smoke and mirrors rouse aholographic ghost of the mar-tyred president while nine life-size replicas show him re-clining by a glowing firesideor relaxing while his sons runriot. Then there are the can-nons, blasting smoke from athree-dimensional film into atheater where the seats shakeduring battle scenes. Its not too shocking thatsuch a flashy approach has itscritics. More surprising, per-haps, is that Springfield hasnever had a major museumhonoring its most famous citi-zen. For decades, the town de-pended on Lincolns under-stated home and law office todraw tourists and

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