Joshua Wolf Shenk Quote
Desiring a woman he was not free to approach, bound to a woman he had decided he didn’t love—facing all the while the crack-up of his political career—Lincoln now faced a direct challenge to the one asset that mattered to him above all others, his reputation. He fell apart. Lincoln went Crazy, Speed said,—had to remove razors from his room—take away all Knives and other such dangerous things—&c—it was terrible— was during the Special session of the Ills legislature in 1840. Lincoln, said Ninian Edwards, went Crazy as a Loon.
Joshua Wolf Shenk
Desiring a woman he was not free to approach, bound to a woman he had decided he didn’t love—facing all the while the crack-up of his political career—Lincoln now faced a direct challenge to the one asset that mattered to him above all others, his reputation. He fell apart. Lincoln went Crazy, Speed said,—had to remove razors from his room—take away all Knives and other such dangerous things—&c—it was terrible— was during the Special session of the Ills legislature in 1840. Lincoln, said Ninian Edwards, went Crazy as a Loon.