The Gertrude Polk Brown Lecture Series - Lincoln in Private

The Gertrude Polk Brown Lecture Series - Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About our Greatest President

by Ronald C. White

Thursday, January 27, 6:00-7:00 p.m.Brown Theatre, 315 W. Broadway, Louisville

Free for Filson members 

$20 for non-members

A deeply private man, shut off even to those who worked closely with him, Abraham Lincoln often captured “his best thoughts,” as he called them, in short notes to himself. He would work out his personal stances on the biggest issues of the day, never expecting anyone to see these frank, unpolished pieces of writing, which he’d then keep close at hand, in desk drawers and even in his top hat. The profound importance of these notes has been overlooked, because the originals are scattered across several different archives and have never before been brought together and examined as a coherent whole.

Ronald C. White is the  New York Times  bestselling author of  American Ulysses  and three books on Abraham Lincoln, most recently  A. Lincoln . White earned his PhD at Princeton and has taught at UCLA, Colorado College, Whitworth University, and Princeton Theological Seminary. He has lectured at the White House, been interviewed on PBS  NewsHour , and spoken about Lincoln in England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and New Zealand. He is a reader at the Huntington Library and a senior fellow of the Trinity Forum in Washington, D.C.

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