02721cam a2200325 4500 529538354 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780231541305 0231541309 B01EB74DE6 Amazon bdd71247-f288-4a9d-a54c-1b444deaa940 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2571005 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Strozier, Charles. Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln [Libby eBook] : The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed. Columbia University Press, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 7838kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 7838kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>On April 15, 1837, a "long, gawky" Abraham Lincoln walked into Joshua Speed's dry-goods store in Springfield, Illinois, and asked what it would cost to buy the materials for a bed. Speed said seventeen dollars, which Lincoln didn't have. He asked for a loan to cover that amount until Christmas. Speed was taken with his visitor, but, as he said later, "I never saw so gloomy and melancholy a face." Speed suggested Lincoln stay with him in a room over his store for free and share his large double bed. What began would become one of the most important friendships in American history.</p> <p>Speed was Lincoln's closest confidant, offering him invaluable support after the death of his first love, Ann Rutledge, and during his rocky courtship of Mary Todd. Lincoln needed Speed for guidance, support, and empathy. <i>Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln</i> is a rich analysis of a relationship that was both a model of male friendship and a specific dynamic between two brilliant but fascinatingly flawed men who played off each other's strengths and weaknesses to launch themselves in love and life. Their friendship resolves important questions about Lincoln's early years and adds significant psychological depth to our understanding of our sixteenth president.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bdd71247-f288-4a9d-a54c-1b444deaa940&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bdd71247-f288-4a9d-a54c-1b444deaa940&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bdd71247-f288-4a9d-a54c-1b444deaa940&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)