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Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - Cited by: 1. Richard Brookhiser has written a wonderful book on our 16th President. His basic premise is that Abraham Lincoln was a "Founders' Son," in the sense that he represented the next generation of leaders who based Founders son book political careers on the first principles Founders son book our nation's founding/5.

Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln Richard Brookhiser (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) Get Audible Free/5(41). What is new about Founders’ Son. In this book I look where Abraham Lincoln looked—to the founding fathers who inspired him to take up public life, who showed him how to win arguments, and who laid out America’s principles.

The founders gave Lincoln direction, which bound all his talents—politics, humor, poetry, leadership—together. Bridging the rich and tumultuous period from the founding of the United States to the Civil War, Founders' Son is unlike any Lincoln biography to date.

Penetrating in its insight, elegant in its prose, and gripping in its vivid recreation of Lincoln's roving mind at work, this book allows us to think anew about the first hundred years of American history, and shows how we can, like Lincoln, apply the legacy of.

Bridging the rich and tumultuous period from the founding of the United States to the Civil War, Founders' Son is unlike any Lincoln biography to date. Penetrating in its insight, elegant in its /5(3). FOUNDERS' SON A LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN by Richard Brookhiser ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct.

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Throughout “Founders’ Son,” Brookhiser insists upon Lincoln’s equal attachment to both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which were “indissolubly linked.”Author: Drew Gilpin Faust.

In Founders Son, Richard Brookhiser brings Abraham Lincolns career and mind to thrilling life, showing how a frontier boy became the most influential man of his era. The key was the founding fathers, from whom Lincoln derived a vision of America that would become instrumental in his handling the Civil War and the question of slavery.

Lawyer, congressman, president Brookhiser traces the. Founders' Son | Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, Lincoln turned to the great men of the founding--Washington, Paine, Jefferson--and their great documents--the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution--for knowledge, guidance, inspiration, and : Basic Books.

Drew Gilpin Faust’s otherwise thoughtful review of “Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln” (Feb. 8) is misleading in two ways. Faust asks, as if I. In Founders’ Son, celebrated historian Richard Brookhiser presents a compelling new biography of Abraham Lincoln that highlights his lifelong struggle to.

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Many of our Directors, Managers and employees donate. Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln. By Richard Brookhiser, Basic Books$ Richard Brookhiser, a senior editor at the has written extensively about National Review, our nation’s many books include works on George Washington, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, as well as a volume that asks “What Would the Founders Do?”.

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. 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.

More on the book Founders Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers.

Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, Lincoln turned to the great men of the founding—Washington, Paine.

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Landers reviews “Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln,” by Richard Brookhiser. Founders' Son is an ingenious intellectual biography, a work of the highest order written by one of our most creative historians about the most brilliant of our presidents." National Review "Brookhiser has done the seemingly impossible: He has written a life of Lincoln that is fresh, original, and ideal for those new to the subject /5().