Emphasis Preaching Journal
Not On Our Own
Commentary
My guess is that we’ve all got a favorite book about Lincoln. The list is endless, of course. One of the ones I found most helpful, at least in terms of understanding depression, is Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness, by Joshua Wolf Shenk. The book, published in 2005, was written to explore how Lincoln conquered his depression and became one of our greatest presidents. What Shenk discovered, however, was that Lincoln never conquered his depression.
