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AUTHOR APPEARANCES
October 4, 3 p.m. Book World Live, online discussion hosted by The Washington Post
October 14, 3 p.m. The Harvard Bookstore, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue | Cambridge, MA
October 18, 7 p.m. Olsson's Books-Lansburgh, 418 7th St NW | Washington, D.C.
October 24, 7 p.m. Joseph-Beth Bookseller, Rookwood Pavilion | Cincinnati, OH
October 25, 6 pm Mercantile Library, 414 Walnut St. | Cincinnati OH 45202
October 26 MotherJones.com online chat
November 4, 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center, 1972 Broadway (between 66th and 67th) | New York, NY
November 8, 7:30 p.m. The Elliott Bay Book Company,101 South Main St. | Seattle, WA
November 10, 7:30 p.m. Cody's Books, 2 Stockton St., San Francisco, CA
November 13, 3 p.m. Diesel Books, 3890 Cross Creek Road, Malibu, CA,
November 29, 7 p.m. Live at the New York Public Library. A conversation about Lincoln's Melancholy with First Lady Rosalynn Carter and Joshua Wolf Shenk. 42nd Street and 5th Avenue | New York City
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"A significant contribution to the study of Lincoln and his battle with depression that will resonate with contemporary Americans." — Kirkus (starred review)
"An extraordinary story, for the depth of its scholarship and the lure of its style." —Mike Wallace, CBS News
"After reading Lincoln's Melancholy, you will never look at depression in the same way again. Without doubt one of the most thought-provoking books of the season." —Steven Fidel, Powell's Books
"A profoundly human and psychologically important examination of the melancholy that so pervaded Lincoln's life. His suffering, and transformation of that suffering into an astonishing grace and strength, are persuasively and beautifully described in this remarkable book." --Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and author of An Unquiet Mind
"Lincoln's Melancholy accomplishes a very difficult thing: It puts Abraham Lincoln and his achievements in a new light." —Douglas L. Wilson, Lincoln-prize author of Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln , and director of the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College
"Brilliantly peels away the onion of myth and sentiment to reveal the compelling, tortured soul beneath. This book is full of lessons not just on Lincoln and mental health but on the strange alchemy of great leadership." —Jonathan Alter, Newsweek Magazine
"Every aspect of Lincoln's life has been probed time and again, except for an in-depth analysis of his depressive nature. That gap is now brilliantly filled by Joshua Wolf Shenk's book. Lincoln had significant ups and downs. So too, Winston Churchill, Woodrow Wilson, Lyndon Johnson and hundreds of other now forgotten politicians. Shenk's book will be history's bible of how an heroic, depressive leader strikingly met life's greatest challenges. It is the single most fascinating book about Lincoln that I have ever read." —Senator Thomas F. Eagleton
"An intriguing and impeccably researched work, Lincoln's Melancholy illuminates, not only political history, but a fascinating period in our medical and cultural history, as well. The mid-nineteenth century was a fertile period in the development of modern psychology. With this snapshot of the attitudes and ideas of that era, anchored to the story of Lincoln's suffering and growth, Shenk has made a major contribution to the study of melancholia and depression." —Jennifer Radden, author, The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva; professor and chair of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Boston
"Shenk with prodigious research and acute analysis has wrought a magnificent volume which fills a large void in the study of Lincoln's mental health." —Wayne C. Temple, author of Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet