| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.3

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Canada and the United States

Douglas L. Wilson. Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1998. Pp. 383. $30.00.

Douglas L. Wilson wishes to enrich Lincoln biography by resurrecting a tarnished source: the interviews with old settlers and others who knew Abraham Lincoln when he was a young man, collected after Lincoln's death by his longtime law partner, William H. Herndon. Lincoln kept no diary, and, even after he gained some fame, he sent only brief responses to requests for personal information. He was genuinely modest and maintained a Victorian reticence about his private life. 1

But Herndon was nosy and wanted to know more, especially about Lincoln's private life and his relationships with women. Naturally, most of the old timers responded eagerly when Herndon asked about their early association with Lincoln, and they likely exaggerated their knowledge of him and their influence on him. Because Herndon's interviews were the principal source of the story that Lincoln was romantically involved with Ann Rutledge and that her early death shaped his life ever after, the notes on the interviews fell out of favor when professional historians attacked the Rutledge myth. . . .

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