Blue beard: a revealing look at why Lincoln's depression didn't cost him politically.(On Political Books)(Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged A President and Fueled His Greatness)(Book Review)

Washington Monthly | December 1, 2005| | Copyright

Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged A President and Fueled His Greatness By Joshua Wolf Shenk Houghton, Mifflin, $25.00

We do not tend to look for great psychological depths in American presidents. Political leadership is so often a matter of subordinating every other normal pattern of life to the pursuit of power that there is frequently very little, in psychological terms, left inside their souls. But even at those rare moments when the presidency is visited upon the cranky or the idiosyncratic--John Adams, say; or Thomas Jefferson--the account which ...

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