Lincoln Essay

Lincoln essay

By: Angel E. Hernández Jr.

         An anecdote is a brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event told to illustrate a point. In from A Lincoln Preface the author, Carl Sandburg, he builds up a preview for a six volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. He writes this series of anecdotes for people to see what is going to be the biography and to create interest in it.

         I like the anecdote in which he talked to Harriet Beecher Stowe. It is enjoyable because that book lighted the spark that lighted the great civil war. I think that showed the responsible and the comprehensive side of Abraham because he did not angry because of the war.

         I also liked the anecdote in which he controlled the admission of Nevada as a state of the union. He asked some of the officers to promise whatever is necessary for the senators and representative to vote for Nevada as a state. It is enjoyable because you can see the power and influences a president of the United States have during a civil war. It shows his manipulative side.

         In conclusion, Abraham Lincoln was not the president I always thought it was. He was a president with different attitudes in similar situations. I learned that he was like any other person with different feelings and attitudes. I thought he was a person with almost no savagisms but I learned that he did have some savagism when he refers to a senator as bad senator.