Exploring Abraham Lincoln's 'Melancholy' looks at Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk, and includes an excerpt from the first chapter.
Of all the presidents, I've always been rather fond of Lincoln, and not just because he is a fellow Kentuckian. (Ironically, we can claim both Lincoln, who was born here, and Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy...in its own small way this illustrates just how much in the middle Kentucky was during the Civil War.) His depression, his personality, and his alleged experiences with the paranormal always intrigued me as well. This sounds like a book I'd like to read.
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