Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln - Charles B. Strozier

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Résumé :
Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln is a rich analysis of one of the most important friendships in American history. Joshua Speed and Abraham Lincoln's relationship was both a model of male friendship and a specific dynamic between two brilliant but fascinatingly flawed men. Their friendship resolves important questions about Lincoln's early years.

Biographie:
Charles B. Strozier, a historian and psychoanalyst, is a professor of history at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and faculty, training, and supervising analyst at TRISP in New York City. His books include Lincoln's Quest for Union: Public and Private Meanings (1982) and Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses (2011).

Sommaire:
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
1. Beginnings
2. Two Friends, One Bed
3. Friendship
4. Depression
5. Sex and Prostitution
6. Broken Engagement
7. The Winter of Discontent
8. Kentucky Bluegrass
9. Homeward Bound
10. A Vicarious Romance
11. Mary Todd, Once Again
12. The Crucible of Greatness
Conclusions: On Friendship
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index