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Lincoln's melancholy
how depression challenged a president and fueled his greatness
By Shenk, Joshua Wolf
- ISBN
- 978-0-61855-116-3
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2006
Adult/High School In 1835, Lincoln, a likable, gifted law student, was so depressed that his community, who accepted his mental state as a component of his brilliance, put him on a suicide watch. The reaction to his depressions by those who knew him, and by Lincoln himself, is a revelation of 19th-century thinking. In his day, melancholia was seen as a personality type that, along with disadvantages, had attributes such as deep sel...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
