Abraham Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. The text incorporates the field notes of earlier biographers; along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers.
#894468 in Books The Johns Hopkins University Press 1999-04-26Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .68 x 6.00l; .85 #File Name: 0801861802280 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Students beware!By Hisham NaseerI wish the eBooks had better ways of marking the page numbers!0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Oy....By Patricia S. DumasI couldn't even get past the first 50 pages.. dull...I need some chicken soup after this one.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The New Republic's Review of Quarantine!By A CustomerExcerpts From THE NEW REPUBLIC; May 26; 1997; pp. 32-37. REVIEW of QUARANTINE! EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH IMMIGRANTS AND THE NEW YORK CIY EPIDEMICS OF 1892 BY HOWARD MARKEL. BOOK REVIEW by Sherwin B. Nuland "Hate in the Time of Cholera" "Remarkable...Engrossing....QUARANTINE! unites the best of the two worlds of social history and clinical history. And it is written in a narrative style so personal and gripping that a reader forgets that the book is meant primarily to be a scholarly text. A wide variety of personalities appear in Markel's detailed study of this slice of American urban culture taken through the length of a well-defined period in our nation's history. Not only the patients and the public health authorities are brought vividly to life; but so are newspapermen; police; political figures; and leaders of the various Jewish American groups; be they representative of the well-settled Germans or the newly arrived Eastern Europeans. Events and the people who took part in them are presented with an immediacy uncommon in the current climate of specialization and relativism that has lately overtaken the community of historians. Markel is as much spinning a complex yarn as he is writing a scrupulously researched chronicle. Being one of our few card-carrying historians who is also a highly skilled clinical physician; he brings perspectives that would certainly elude his more sociologically minded colleagues. His work is a refreshing zephyr in a field that is nowadays frequently more windy than enlightening. Markel resists the temptation to make sweeping statments about philosophy; character and psychology; the sort of empty generalizations that would make him friends in the precincts of multicultural relevance. He restricts himelf to creating an accurate picture of a specific series of events that occurred among specific participants in a specific place at a specific time. He has presented his work in a narrative fashion that should be the envy of his colleagues in a discipline that has surrendered more and more to the "cholera" of a formalized and recondite practice..."
