Founders Son, Richard Brookhiser
Founders Son, Richard Brookhiser
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Founders' Son
A Life of Abraham Lincoln

Author: Richard Brookhiser

Narrator: Norman Dietz

Unabridged: 12 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/13/2015

Synopsis

In Founders' Son, celebrated historian Richard Brookhiser presents a compelling new biography of Abraham Lincoln that highlights his lifelong struggle to carry on the work of the Founding Fathers. Following Lincoln from his humble origins in Kentucky to his assassination in Washington, DC, Brookhiser shows us every side of the man: laborer, lawyer, congressman, president; storyteller, wit, lover of ribald jokes; depressive, poet, friend, visionary. And he shows that despite Lincoln's many roles and his varied life, he returned time and time again to the Founders. They were rhetorical and political touchstones, the basis of his interest in politics, and the lodestars guiding him as he navigated first Illinois politics and then the national scene.

But their legacy was not sufficient. As the Civil War lengthened and the casualties mounted, Lincoln wrestled with one more paternal figure—God the Father—to explain to himself, and to the nation, why ending slavery had come at such a terrible price.

About Richard Brookhiser

Richard Brookhiser is the author of What Would the Founders Do? Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton, American, and America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918. Writer and host of the critically acclaimed PBS documentary Rediscovering George Washington, he is a columnist for Time magazine and a senior editor of National Review. He has also written for the New Yorker and the New York Times. Richard lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dee on May 05, 2024

Second listening completed today. I did skip the early years of Lincoln's life. The only change I will make in my review is to improve the grade of the narrator from B to A. I also ordered a hard copy for my grandsons. Audible sale 12 hours 43 min. Narrated by Norman Dietz (A) Richard Brookhiser, long......more

Goodreads review by Bill on March 17, 2022

This is a decent enough short biography of Abraham Lincoln, but I’m not sure the thesis - that Lincoln was guided, inspired and animated by the Founding Fathers, and the “true inheritor of their mantle” - was explored to the fullest extent possible. As a result, it kind of reads like a straightforwa......more

Goodreads review by Steve on February 13, 2022

[URL not allowed] Notwithstanding the book’s subtitle (and its marketing claim) this is not a biography of Lincoln in any traditional sense. It does cover the major events of his life in varying degrees of detail…but with frequent (and often lengthy) philosophical diversions. T......more

Goodreads review by Ionia on June 28, 2014

"Other books on Lincoln have noted his interest in the founding fathers and how he looked back to them, but here, for the first time, a historian of the founding looks ahead to Lincoln." And so he did. This is a truly excellent example of careful research and a desire to look at a much analysed life......more

Goodreads review by John on April 02, 2016

Book 7 of 40 There are more books out there about Lincoln then pollen in Atlanta in the spring. In Founders' Son Richard Brookhiser writes about Lincoln's political philosophy and its development and how it figured into his actions in the presidency. Lincoln was a believer in the Founders and was awa......more

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