September 14, 2021    7 p.m.    via Zoom

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This lecture is presented through the Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana:

It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the 41^st Annual McMurtry Lecture, which will be delivered as a live webinar on September 14th, 2021, at 7 p.m. EDT. The lecture will be delivered by David S. Reynolds, author of Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times. He is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The topic of David S. Reynolds will be “Influences that Shaped Abraham Lincoln.”

David  S. Reynolds:   What were the influences that shaped Abraham Lincoln? How did Lincoln rise from his rough background to become, in Tolstoy’s words, “the only real giant” among “all the great national heroes and statesmen of history,” the leader whom Karl Marx called “one of the rare men who succeed in becoming great, without ceasing to be good”? David S. Reynolds, drawing on his prize-winning biography Abe, presents new perspectives on several key influences, including Lincoln’s family, his frontier experiences, his reading, his friendships, his marriage, his law career, and Springfield.

Abe by David S. Reynolds is the winner of the Gilder Lehrman Abraham Lincoln Prize and the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award. It was one of the Wall Street Journal’s Top Ten Books of the Year and was listed among the Best Books of 2020 by the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews. He is the author of or editor of 16 books, including Walt Whitman’s America, winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award.