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Acknowledgments
It’s probably not possible to thank every person who has supported me in the work of making this book, but—reader be warned—I’m going to try.
I bow first to my brother David Shenk, without whose encouragement I could scarcely have begun this project and without whose support I certainly would never have finished. With David, my brother Jon Shenk has shown me how to tell stories with compassion and close attention. My love and thanks to Jon and David; to Alex Beers and Bonni Cohen; to Mom and Dad; to Grandma Shenk; to Uncle Lou and Aunt Sarah; to Sidney Cohen and Betty Ann Shenk; to Lucy, Henry, Abraham, and Anabel; to Jason and Jessica Esterkamp and Abbe Cohen; to Bill Shenk, Chuck and Joyce Shenk, Phillip and Angela Wolf; to Lila Heymann, Claire Heymann, Joan Heymann-Bergmann, and Patrick Bergmann; to Stacy and David Fisher, Michael Shenk, Alyssa Shenk, Ben Genshaft, and Andrea Beth Shenk; to Amy Wolf, Dean Volk, Rebecca Hea, Roland Hea, and Suzanne Wolf; and to the Greenes, the Beerses, the Roths, the Roy Cohens, and the Stan Cohens.
At Harvard College, Pat C. Hoy II taught me all I could learn in a classroom about writing, Steven Biel nurtured my interest in history, and Bill Kovach showed me that reporters could put bad guys in jail. At the New Republic, Martin Peretz and Andrew Sullivan gave me my first job and a chance to learn from a brilliant circle of writers, including Leon Wieseltier, Michael Kinsley, Hanna Rosin, Michael Lewis, and Robert Wright. Charles Peters at the Washington Monthly paid me to edit and study under more great talents, including Jonathan Alter, Katherine Boo, Matthew Cooper, Gregg Easterbrook, Paul Glastris, Nicholas Lemann, Jon Meacham, Matthew Miller, and Timothy Noah. After a too brief stay at the Washington bureau of The Economist—w
here I learned how to write in an English accent from Daniel Franklin, Sebastian Mallaby, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and Yvonne Ryan—James Fallows and Steven Waldman trained me further at U.S. News & World Report. To Jim and Steve and to my colleagues at U.S. News, including Amy Bernstein, Lincoln Caplan, Erica Goode, and Joannie Fischer, I tender thanks.
My fellow editors at the Harvard Crimson—including Brian Hecht, Jonathan Cohn, Phil Pan, Maggie Tucker, Joe Mathews, Mary Louise Kelley, Ira Stoll, and Dante Ramos—are my gold standard for camaraderie. I am especially grateful for the friendship of John Cloud, Julian Barnes, Ivan Oransky, and David Plotz. My Monthly coeditors, Amy Waldman and Gareth Cook, showed me how to work well under intense pressure. I was guided by their spirit, though sorely missing Gareth’s sock, in the final push to finish this manuscript. Thanks also to Amanda Bichsel Cook and Daniel Franklin.
In my first, daunting days in New York City, I found shelter in the warmth of a group who will be known to history as “the grinders.” Thanks to Eve Grubin, whose contributions to the proposal linger still in this manuscript, Tara Goodrich, Susie Greenebaum, Jessica Bacal, and Arielle Eckstut. Thanks also to Joey Bacal and David Henry Sterry. Clara Jeffery edited my first long-form essays for Harper’s Magazine with patience and impeccable good sense. The great Nell Casey helped me articulate my own melancholy, included in her anthology Unholy Ghost. Nell also introduced me to a circle of creative provocateurs at Stories at the Moth, where Joey Xanders turned my artistic life inside out and right side up. Dan Kennedy has helped me keep Joey’s lessons alive, and has constantly tutored me in the tricky business of staying humble and purposeful. To Nell, Joey, and Dan—all my love. My thanks also to those who keep the flame lit at the Moth, including George Dawes Green, Lea Thau, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, and my fellow members of the board of directors: Alexander Roy, Mark Baltazar, Tony Hendra, Jeffrey Rudell, Margaret Braun, Anne Maffei, and Roger Skelton.
A fellowship from the Mental Health Program at the Carter Center, the project of Rosalynn Carter, helped me research and write a book proposal. Many times afterward, when my faith began to flag, a word of encouragement would come from Mrs. Carter—or an invitation to Atlanta—and buck me up. The Carter Center feels like this book’s home, and I am anxious to deliver it there. My profound gratitude to Rosalynn Carter, Jimmy Carter, and the mental health program staff, including Gregory Fricchione, Thomas H. Bornemann, Lei Ellingson, Rebecca Palpant, Lynne Randolph, and Valrie Thompson. Kay Redfield Jamison, my fellowship adviser, helped me begin my mental health research. Jennifer Radden greatly aided that work and introduced me to Nassir Ghaemi, a key consultant for this project. Thanks also to Lauren Slater, Norbert Hirschhorn, Barbara Mason, Kyla Dunn, Craig Troxclair, Shie Rozow, Donnell Stern, Richard Simon, and Ruth Richards.
Among the historians who have personally helped me, I am most deeply indebted to Douglas Wilson, Rodney Davis, and Michael Burlingame, who not only did the work I could build upon but welcomed me warmly as an informal student and as a colleague. Scott A. Sandage was hugely helpful with the culture of Lincoln’s time and the politics of our own. Thanks also to Jennifer Fleischner, Allen C. Guelzo, David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer, Richard Lawrence Miller, Jonathan H. Mann, Matthew Pinsker, David Greenberg, Jonathan Ned Katz, Andrew Delbanco, Molly Murray, Anthony Rotundo, Thomas F. Schwartz, Don Sides, John Y. Simon, Thomas Lowry, Richard Taylor, Kenneth Winkle, Michael F. Bishop, Wayne C. Temple, Sharon Wilson, Norma Davis, Paul Verduin, Margaret Westman, Phyllis Rose, Brooks D. Simpson, Ted Widmer, Bud Green, Jim Sayre, and all my fellow members of the Association of Lincoln Presenters.
History is built on manuscripts, and the keepers of historical papers do a crucial job with little acclaim. Thanks to John Hoffman and James M. Cornelius at the Illinois Historical Survey, Cheryl Schnirring and Kim Bauer at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Jay Satterfield and his staff at the University of Chicago Library, Carolyn Texley and Cindy VanHorn at the Lincoln Museum, Pen Bogert and everyone at the Filson Historical Society, Ada Hubbard at the Hancock County Historical Society, Ed Russo at the Lincoln Library in Springfield, John Daly at the Illinois State Archives, and Jane Westenfeld at Allegheny College. Special thanks to Beverley Ballantine, an authority on the family of Judge John Speed of Farmington. Thanks also to Dan Weinberg and Sylvia Castle-Dahlstrom at the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop. For shelter on my travels, thanks to Kitty Miller, Kristen Graham, Katherine Marsh, and Ralph Muhs.
In my six years of teaching at the New School University, and my one semester at New York University, I have had hundreds of students, and to them I say: You taught me well. Thanks to Robert Polito, Jackson Taylor, Deborah Landau, Luis Jaramillo, and everyone at the New School Writing Program, and to the faculty and staff of the NYU Expository Writing Program.
Bruce Feiler helped me get this book off the ground and has been sharp and generous throughout. In the long slog of drafting the manuscript, I benefited from several months of intense work with Stephen Hubbell. My agent, Tina Bennett, and her assistant, Svetlana Katz, have been a great team at Janklow and Nesbit. Thanks also to Anne Seiwerath, Lori Glazer, Laurence Cooper, and everyone at Houghton Mifflin. Tyler Rudick, Mary Fratini, Kayte VanScoy, Rebecca Segall, Summer Lynne Block, Hazen Allen, and Joe Dempsey have helped me with research. Kim Cutter helped me finish. For encouragement and assistance, thanks to Frank Rich, Scott Stossel, Curtis Fox, Warren St. John, Dean Olsher, Deborah C. Kogan, Eric Alterman, Coleman Hough, Stephen Smith, Eric Konigsberg, Eric Pape, Rich Garella, Annie Murphy Paul, Cindy Chupack, Dennis J. Drabelle, Ernest Drucker, Jennifer Bluestein, Chloe Breyer, David Carr, John and Molly Aboud, Chris Decherd, Greg Kamalier, Easy Klein, Emily Marcus, Debra Marquart, Amy Meeker, Jim Nelson, Rosie O’Donnell, Kaja Perina, Tony Salvatore, Jennifer Lehr, John Lehr, John Seabrook, Virginia Heffernan, Hilit Shifman, Carmine Starnino, Naseem Surhio, Nina Collins, Alison Conte, Tom de Kay, Michaela Murphy, Francesca Ortenzio, Maud Casey, James Kornbluh, Matt Aselton, Julia Rothwax, Megan Olden, Pari Chang, Meredith Tucker, Nina Davenport, Nell Eisenberg, Suzanne Smalley, Eve Pomerance, Stacy Abramson, Rosemary Hutzler, Garrett Hongo, D. J. Waldie, Nick Paumgarten, Mia Morgan, Rosalie Fay Barnes, Rebecca Wolff, Alissa Shipp, Elizabeth Kadetsky, Gersh Kuntzman, Greg Walloch, Gretchen Rubin, Julie Subrin, Michael Descoteau, Kira Pollack, Libby Garland, Lucinda Rosenfeld, Jenny Carchman, Ken Kurson, Kees deMooy, Chris Offutt, Karen Latuchie, Chris Desser, Naomi Lifschitz, Micki McGee, Rosalind Solomon, Nick Flynn, A. M. Homes, Fenton Johnson, Tom Judd, and the Cake Man. Thanks to the staff and patrons of the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Blue Mountain Center, where portions of this book were written.
Among those who have tended to my mental and spiritual health over the past seven years are Richard “Emotions Are Like Jelly Beans” Chefetz, Paula Eagle, Julie Holland, Antonio Burr, Sally Frances, Andrew Tartasky, Jill Blakeway, Shauna Kanter, Warren Moe, Oliver Williams, Matthew Riechers, Rabbi Burt Siegel, and Ricardo Cruciani. Thanks also to the Mankind Project and to Dave Lambert, Bob Handelman, Adam Zuckerman, Chris Bowen, Mark Menges, Richard Dirksen, Brigham Sweet, Alain Hunkins, Lenn Snyder, Jay Hodgson, Mark Boal, and Matt Sislowitz.
Thanks to all my friends. Janalyn Glascock, Traci Freeman, Michael J. O’Grady, the Holzman-Meranus family, the Boracks, the Barons, Geri Mailender, Alison Hiller Harmon, Christopher Hawthorne, Rachel Fine, Steve Silberman, Keith Karraker, Andrew Shuman, Sara Dickerman, Crispin Roven, Daniela Raz, Jenny Mayher, Ashvin Pande, Maura Swan, Courtney Williams, Cullen Gerst, Elizabeth Scarboro, Adam Goodheart, Gary Bass, Kelly A. E. Mason, Rachel Greene, Elizabeth Wollman, Emily Adcock, Amy Kaufman, Jennifer Senior, Jane Jaffin, Jeff Whelan, Austin Bunn, Eva Zuckerman, Christopher Heine, Anne Marxer, Tessa Blake, Ian Williams, Bill Werde, Suzanne Clores, Elisabeth Subrin, Elizabeth Miller, Jainee McCarroll, Jennifer Pitts, Jennifer Szalai, Jesse Drucker, Jill Birnbaum, Joseph Braude, Kathleen Leisure, Michael Kadish, Nina Siegal, Noah Robischon, Pamela Paul, Patty Griffin, Sarah Haberman, Anna Schuleit, Alex Forman, Hannah Tinti, Laurie Sandell, an
d David Petersen.
Though I have met him only in my dreams, no artist has helped me more or pushed me harder than Bruce Springsteen. If anyone knows the Boss, for God’s sake would you send him this book?
For several years, I have cloistered myself in work and kept up only with a group of dearly appreciated friends. Ted Rose is my man on the mountain, on the ocean, and in the city. Jesse Upton is my man in Fort Greene. Adam Piore is my Donald Kaufman. Bliss Broyard has gone with me to colonies and libraries and offices and helped me keep faith at every step. Dr. Ari Handel has hashed out every struggle in this book with me, sometimes while sweating profusely. Mark Wiedman is my secretary of the treasury. Andy Allbee has shown me the path of the superior man. Brooke Delaney is going with me from stage one to stage two. Sara Lamm picked me up and took me out for ice cream. Rachel Lehmann-Haupt made me beef stew with raspberries. I love you all. Pop the corks.
In memory: Sol A. Shenk, Bertha “Bébé” Wolf, Rabbi Sidney Wolf, Philippe Wamba, Rosemary Quigley, Jack Roth, and Daniel Bassuck.
Without Eamon Dolan, this book would never have crossed the threshold from idea to reality. To my great editor, I offer great thanks and the prize piece from my collection of Lincoln kitsch—a sterling silver spoon with the Gettysburg Address inscribed on the bowl.
I am grateful, finally, to Abraham Lincoln. “The fight must go on.”
Index
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Abolitionism, [>]–[>]
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Abraham Lincoln: Man of Suffering (Standard Oil pamphlet), [>]
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (Sandburg), [>]
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