A review by kristineneeley
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk

4.0

I felt as if I was seeing Lincoln in a whole new light. And in a way, myself. I’m no stranger to melancholy, and it was powerful to see all the ways in which Lincoln harnessed the spectrum of his emotional awareness to inform his choices as a leader of pour country for a time.

Admittedly, I’ve never read up much on Lincoln before, but I certainly want to do so now, after reading this. It was fascinating, in the epilogue, to follow along with how the changes in perfection of Lincoln’s character have changed with theories of psychology.