Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President And Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk, Joshua Wolf Shenk

Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President And Fueled His Greatness

Joshua Wolf Shenk, Joshua Wolf Shenk

350 pages • first pub 2005 (view editions)

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Shenk relates Lincoln's symptoms, including mood swings and at least two major breakdowns, and offers compelling evidence of the evolution of his disease, from "major depression" in his twenties and thirties to "chronic depression" later on. Shenk...

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