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There is also an appendix with a short biography on each of the over 350 people quoted. It is too much work to use compared to many other books.In Snappy Sayings: wit & wisdom of the world's greatest minds I address this lack of context. I tried to make each quotation richer by including with birth and death date after each name. Alex Ayres book "The Wit And Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln" has some great material in it but is poorly organized. That along with larger print and 500 photos and illustration makes Snappy Sayings: wit & wisdom of the world's greatest minds a fun and rewarding read.Find a better book on Lincoln's wit and wisdom. It does give a brief biography. It has no table of contents and no index. It is organized alphabetically starting with advice and ending with writing.
Always. How can this great, outstanding speech be limited to three brief lines. Both should always be written in its entirety. Great book. No half measures even if this is a "thrift edition." It does Lincoln no great service and neither the readers. In the book, it is only a partial speech. However, I wish the ENTIRE "farewell speech" (leaving Springfield going to DC as president elect)was included. The same can be said herein for the Gettysburg Address.
It is a kind of lazy book in that regard.and, if it were the only source of Lincoln information, I would condemn the whole enterprise of publishing it. It allows some space for one's own imagination to flourish and wander.rather than digesting yet another author's thesis. For what it is, the book is worth the time. But there's so much about Lincoln out there.that this little book allows one to focus directly upon Lincoln, the man.in his own words. In a way, this unvarnished Lincoln, prompts a new kind of wonder. The quotes, of course, are all out of context, but that doesn't necessarily make for bad reading. In fact, since many know the facts of Lincoln's life, the context can usually be filled in.
I still think Abe Lincoln was the best President we ever had.you will be amazed of the way he expressedhimself. Great.received as descrived by Vendor.
Young readers would be running to dictionaries to figure out what a lot of the passages mean, while Lincoln was a "wordy" speaker, some of the short and "down home" passages can make the reader imagine Lincoln speaking with a twinkle in his eye as he told a story. While this short book of quotes and speeches was interesting, I believe you have to be a big fan of Lincoln to get much out of it.
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