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目录
HOW THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN-AND WHY
PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
PART FOUR
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIXES
Ⅰ. First Inaugural Address
Ⅱ. Second Inaugural Address

HOW THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN-AND WHY
One spring day, some years ago, I was breakfasting in the Hotel Dysart, London; and, as usual, I was trying to winnow a bit of American news from the columns of the "Morning Post." Ordinarily I found none, but on that fortunate morning I made a strike rich and unexpected.
The late T. P. O'Connor, reputed "Father of the House of Commons," conducted in those days a column in the "Morn ing Post" entitled "Men and Memories." On that particular morning, and for several mornings following,"Tay Pay's" column was devoted to Abraham Lincoln-not to his political activities but to the personal side of his career: to his sorrows, his repeated failures, his poverty, his great love for Ann Rutledge, and his tragic marriage to Mary Todd.
I read the series with profound interest-and surprise. I had spent the first twenty years of my life in the Middle West, not far from the Lincoln country; and, in addition to that, I had always been keenly interested in United States history. I should have said that of course I knew Lincoln's life−story; but I soon discovered that I didn't. The fact is that I, an American, had had to come to London and read a series of articles written by an Irishman, in an English newspaper, before I realized that the story of Lincoln's career was one of the most fascinating tales in all the annals of mankind.
Was this lamentable ignorance peculiar to me? I wondered. But I didn't wonder long, for I soon discussed the subject with a number of my fellow−countrymen, and I discovered that they were in the same boat, that about all they knew about Lincoln was this: that he had been born in a log cabin, had walked miles to borrow books and then read them at night, stretched out on the floor in front of the fireplace; that he split rails, became a lawyer, told funny stories, said that a man's legs ought to be long enough to reach the ground, was called "Honest Abe," debated with Judge Douglas, was elected President of the United States, wore a silk hat, freed the slaves, spoke at Gettysburg, declared that he wished he knew what brand of whisky Grant drank so he could send a barrel of it to his other generals, and was shot by Booth in a theater in Washington.
Aroused by these articles in the "Morning Post," I went over to the British Museum library and read a number of Lin ............

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