"Honest Abe": A Study in Integrity Based on the Early Life of Abraham Lincoln

Books by Alonzo Rothschild PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
“HONEST ABE.” A Study in Integrity based on the Early Life of Abraham Lincoln.
LINCOLN, MASTER OF MEN. Illustrated.
“HONEST ABE”

A STUDY IN INTEGRITY BASED ON THE EARLY LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN BY ALONZO ROTHSCHILD AUTHOR OF “LINCOLN, MASTER OF MEN”
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1917
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY META ROTHSCHILD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published September 1917
IN MEMORY OF “DEAREST” KATHERINE ROTHSCHILD TO WHOM THE AUTHOR OWES NOT LESS THAN LINCOLN OWED HIS “ANGEL MOTHER” THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

HE who seeks to understand the character and achievement of Abraham Lincoln must begin with a study of the man’s honesty. At the base of his nature, in the tap-root and very fiber of his being, pulsed a fidelity to truth, whether of thought or of deed, peculiar to itself. So thoroughgoing was this characteristic that it seems to have begun in him where in other men it generally leaves off. Politicians without number have yielded a work-a-day obedience to the rules of honor, but there is record of no other public leader in recent times who, among the vicissitudes of a trying career, has endeavored to balance actions and principles with such painstaking nicety. To trace these efforts from Lincoln’s early years is to pass with him, pace for pace, over part of the road that led to distinction. As we go we shall have to take account of happenings, little as well as big; for every man is the sum of all his parts, and in no other way may we hope to comprehend how the esteem that began with a few rustic neighbors grew until it filled the heart of a nation.