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| |  | Business & Investing | Home » » » The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." Rather than the dour soul he sometimes appeared to be, Abraham Lincoln enjoyed a fine, often barbed sense of humor as this lively collection of his salty stories, anecdotes, quotes and speech excerpts proves. Also included in this treasury are his famous addresses, a Lincoln time-line, and sections on Lincoln Lore, Gettysburg Gems and Assassination Secrets. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| James C. Humes | | Hardcover:
| 272 pages | | Publisher:
| Gramercy | | Publication Date:
| November 30, 1999 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0517207192 | | Package Length:
| 6.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 17 reviews |
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 SOME GOOD MATERIAL POOR ORGANIZATIONJun 28, 2009
Alex Ayres book "The Wit And Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln" has some great material in it but is poorly organized. It has no table of contents and no index. It does give a brief biography. It is organized alphabetically starting with advice and ending with writing. 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. There is also an appendix with a short biography on each of the over 350 people quoted. 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.
My Man Abe!May 18, 2009
Great book. However, I wish the ENTIRE "farewell speech" (leaving Springfield going to DC as president elect)was included. In the book, it is only a partial speech. The same can be said herein for the Gettysburg Address. How can this great, outstanding speech be limited to three brief lines? Both should always be written in its entirety. Always. No half measures even if this is a "thrift edition." It does Lincoln no great service and neither the readers!
Easy and Rewarding ReadApr 17, 2009
For what it is, the book is worth the time. 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.
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. 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. It allows some space for one's own imagination to flourish and wander...rather than digesting yet another author's thesis. In a way, this unvarnished Lincoln, prompts a new kind of wonder.
 The wit and wisdom of Abraham Lincoln,Book of QuotatiosFeb 21, 2009
Great...received as descrived by Vendor. I still think Abe Lincoln was the best President we ever had..you will be amazed of the way he expressed
himself.
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 You have to be a big fan of Linclon to get much out of this bookFeb 08, 2009
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. 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.
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