We Are Lincoln Men Book Report

“We Are Lincoln Men” Abraham Lincoln and His Friends examines the importance of friendship in the life of Abraham Lincoln and the role it played in his presidency. President Lincoln had many supporters and admirers yet had almost no close friends. Behind the tragedies that hit him and his want for a mother like figure, Lincoln maintained an inviolate reserve that only a few were able to penetrate. In the book, Abe Lincoln meet many people but friends like Joshua Fry Speed and the then Illinois Senator Orville H. Browning have an impact on him. The book examines those impacts and how they affected his life and decisions he made as a president.
The book examines the childhood of Lincoln in the first few chapters. It first examines some false stories about the childhood of Abraham Lincoln. An example is the story of “James Duncan when he recalled how with three dogs he and young Abraham chased a groundhog into a cleft in the rocks along the side of a creek. After working in vain for nearly two hours to force the creature out, Lincoln ran off about quarter of a mile to the blacksmith shop and returned with an iron hook attached to the end of a pole, which he used to pry the creature out.” The problem with the story according to the book is that Lincoln would have only been 2 years old at that time. Like this story, many other stories about Abraham Lincoln that came out after his assassination were false. Lincoln never received much education during his childhood and got …show more content…
It gives a look into the life of one of the greatest men and president to every live. The fact that book opens what Lincoln went through but was able to become such an iconic person is very impressive and gives people more room to analyze the great person everyone loves and