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1932 biography by Dale Carnegie

Lincoln the Unknown is a biography of Abraham Lincoln, written in 1932 by Dale Carnegie.

It is published by Dale Carnegie and Associates, and given out as a prize in the Dale Carnegie Course.

Summary

Abraham Lincoln, a farm boy, becomes the President of the United States.

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He travels miles to borrow books; reading being the dominant passion of his for quarter of a century. He mourns the loss of his first love his whole life. He humors his colleagues in the White House, and lives with the difficulties of the marriage with his second love, while in war with the South.

Inspirations and writing process

One spring day, Dale Carnegie was breakfasting at a hotel in London.

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He came across a column in the Morning Post newspaper entitled "Men and Memories". On that particular morning and for several mornings following, that column was devoted to Abraham Lincoln—the personal side of his career. Carnegie read tho