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The Resource A friend of Mr. Lincoln, Stephen Harrigan
A friend of Mr. Lincoln, Stephen Harrigan
Resource Information
The item A friend of Mr. Lincoln, Stephen Harrigan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 18 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item A friend of Mr. Lincoln, Stephen Harrigan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 18 library branches.
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- Summary
- "The novel opens in 1832 in the Black Hawk War, when Micajah (Cage) Weatherby--an imaginary character--and Lincoln meet. Afterwards Cage musters out to Springfield, Illinois, where he becomes part of the group of ambitious young men, which includes Lincoln, in this frontier town on the make. And it is through Cage that we come to know his friend Lincoln in his twenties and early thirties, the Lincoln who is already a circuit-riding lawyer and a member of the state legislature, filled with an almost ungovernable ambition. But to Cage and to others with big dreams in this group--which includes Joshua Speed, Billy Herndon, Ninian Edwards, Stephen Douglas, Jim Reed--he is also a beloved, hypnotic figure, physically powerful, by turns charmingly awkward and mesmerizingly self-possesed, and a supremely gifted story teller, a man of whom they expect big things. Cage, a poet, both admires and clashes with Lincoln, as Lincoln's legal ethics allow him to take a murderer's case, or clients on both sides of the slavery issue. And Cage, himself engaged in a long affair with an independent young widow, charts Lincoln's never easy path, from his high spirits and earthy jokes to his soul-hollowing sadness and bouts with the hypo (depression), from his disastrous courtship of another Mary to finally marriage with beautiful, capricious, politically savvy, Mary Todd, who at the close of the novel in 1847 has presented him one son and some stability, although it leads to conflict with Cage, and sends the two men on very different paths into the future"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 415 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307700674
- Label
- A friend of Mr. Lincoln
- Title
- A friend of Mr. Lincoln
- Statement of responsibility
- Stephen Harrigan
- Subject
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- trueAmbition in men
- truePoliticians
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueBiographical fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueLawyers
- 2016 Austin Mayor's book club
- truePoets
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- trueIllinois -- History -- 19th century
- trueMale friendship
- FICTION -- Historical
- FICTION -- Biographical
- Friendship
- trueLincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882
- trueBiographical fiction
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Friends and associates -- Fiction
- trueAntebellum America (1820-1861) -- 1820 -- 1861
- FICTION -- Literary
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueLincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The novel opens in 1832 in the Black Hawk War, when Micajah (Cage) Weatherby--an imaginary character--and Lincoln meet. Afterwards Cage musters out to Springfield, Illinois, where he becomes part of the group of ambitious young men, which includes Lincoln, in this frontier town on the make. And it is through Cage that we come to know his friend Lincoln in his twenties and early thirties, the Lincoln who is already a circuit-riding lawyer and a member of the state legislature, filled with an almost ungovernable ambition. But to Cage and to others with big dreams in this group--which includes Joshua Speed, Billy Herndon, Ninian Edwards, Stephen Douglas, Jim Reed--he is also a beloved, hypnotic figure, physically powerful, by turns charmingly awkward and mesmerizingly self-possesed, and a supremely gifted story teller, a man of whom they expect big things. Cage, a poet, both admires and clashes with Lincoln, as Lincoln's legal ethics allow him to take a murderer's case, or clients on both sides of the slavery issue. And Cage, himself engaged in a long affair with an independent young widow, charts Lincoln's never easy path, from his high spirits and earthy jokes to his soul-hollowing sadness and bouts with the hypo (depression), from his disastrous courtship of another Mary to finally marriage with beautiful, capricious, politically savvy, Mary Todd, who at the close of the novel in 1847 has presented him one son and some stability, although it leads to conflict with Cage, and sends the two men on very different paths into the future"--
- Summary
- Depicts Abraham Lincoln in his 20s and 30s, as he works as a lawyer and in the state legislature and spends time with a fictional poet, Cage Weatherby
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10466921
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1948-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Harrigan, Stephen
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3558.A626
- LC item number
- F75 2016
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Lincoln, Abraham
- FICTION
- FICTION
- FICTION
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Friendship
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- A friend of Mr. Lincoln, Stephen Harrigan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn908517201
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 415 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307700674
- Lccn
- 2015015853
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)908517201
- Label
- A friend of Mr. Lincoln, Stephen Harrigan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn908517201
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 415 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307700674
- Lccn
- 2015015853
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)908517201
Subject
- 2016 Austin Mayor's book club
- trueAmbition in men
- trueAntebellum America (1820-1861) -- 1820 -- 1861
- trueBiographical fiction
- trueBiographical fiction
- FICTION -- Biographical
- FICTION -- Historical
- FICTION -- Literary
- Fiction
- Friendship
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueIllinois -- History -- 19th century
- trueLawyers
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- trueLincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Friends and associates -- Fiction
- trueLincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882
- trueMale friendship
- trueMen/women relations
- truePoets
- truePoliticians
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