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The Intimate World Of Abraham Lincoln
C.A. Tripp
Free Press
January 2005
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Featuring: Abraham Lincoln
384 pages
ISBN: 0743266390
EAN: 9780743266390
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
For four years in the 1830s, in Springfield, Illinois, a
young state legislator shared a bed with his best friend,
Joshua Speed. The legislator was Abraham Lincoln. When Speed
moved home to Kentucky in 1841 and Lincoln's engagement to
Mary Todd was broken off, Lincoln suffered an emotional
crisis. An underground campaign has been accumulating about
Abraham Lincoln for years, focusing on his intimate
relationships. He was famously awkward around single women.
Before Mary Todd, he was engaged to another woman, but his
fiancée called off the marriage on the grounds that he was
"lacking smaller attentions." His marriage to Mary was
troubled. Meanwhile, throughout his adult life, he enjoyed
close relationships with a number of men — disclosed here
for the first time, including an affair with an army captain
when Mrs. Lincoln was away. This extensive study by renowned psychologist, therapist,
and sex researcher C.A. Tripp, examines not only Lincoln's
sexuality, but aims to make sense of the whole man. It
includes an introduction by Jean Baker, biographer of Mary
Todd Lincoln and an afterword containing reactions by two
Lincoln scholars and one clinical psychologist. This timely
book finally allows the true Lincoln to be fully understood.
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