King james iii biography of abraham lincoln

A Noble Dream: Abraham President and representation Middle East

by Jason H. Silverman

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Abe Lincoln Reading

A few weeks ago I noticed that some of the presidential candidates were asked about their favorite authors and poets. The only interesting response came from John McCain. He said his favorite novel was For Whom the Bell Tolls and his favorite poem was The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service. Although we found out that he learned the lengthy poem by heart while he was a prisoner of war—one of his fellow POW’s tapped it out on the thick walls of his cells—no one bothered to ask him why he liked it, or what it taught him.

Perhaps it is worth noting on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday why he didn’t need to be asked such questions. What he read came up naturally in conversations. We all know that Mr. Lincoln was almost entirely a self-educated man. We also know that he was not a widely read man, in the way we would understand that today. We also know that what he did read was most important to the development of his fine heart and mind. His reading consisted almost entirely of the King James Bible, Blackstone’s lectures on English law, and Shakespeare.

According to his best biographer, Lord Charnwood, Lincoln, this humorist and public man, had a “rare capacity for solitary thought.” He was capable of gr