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UNKIMOW r r ; \ •' K & WHAT IS THE DALE CARNEGIE ORGANIZATION? The Dale Carnegie organization is an outgrowth of the original program begun by Dale Carnegie in 1912. Today it is the world's largest adult training organization for individual and company personnel enrolling 80,000 people yearly in cities all over the United States, Canada and fifty-one cities abroad. Over 1 million individuals have graduated from the five courses offered: Dale Carnegie Course in Effective Speak- ing and Human Relations, Dale Carnegie Sales Course, Dorothy Carnegie Course, Dale Carnegie Customer Relations Course and the Dale Carnegie Supervi- sion and Management Seminar. The courses are presented in the United States and foreign countries by Sponsors who operate under a license from Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc., whose offices are in New York. When you talk to a licensed Dale Carnegie organization representative in your community, you are talking with a local businessman who has a stake in your community. Neither he nor his staff, nor his rigidly selected and highly trained instructors are going back to some dis- tant headquarters after you have com- pleted one of the courses. The Dale Carnegie organization is constantly revising and updating all of its courses in order to keep pace with the education explosion that is occurring throughout the world. LINCOLN ROOM UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY MEMORIAL the Class of 1901 founded by HARLAN HOYT HORNER and HENRIETTA CALHOUN HORNER LINCOLN THE UNKNOWN LINCOLN THE UNKNOWN Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://www.archive.org/details/lincolnunknownOOilcarn DALE CARNEGIE Lincoln THE UNKNOWN DALE CARNEGIE & ASSOCIATES, INC. GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1932, BY DALE CARNEGIE COPYRIGHT © 1959 BY DOROTHY CARNEGIE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK, OR PORTIONS THEREOF, IN ANY FORM. Seventh Printing 1968 Printed in the United States of America To My Father and Mother HOW THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN— AND WHY One spring day, some years ago, I was breakfasting in the Hotel Dysart, London; and, as usual, I was trying to winnow a bit of American news from the columns of the "Morning Post." Ordinarily I found none, but on that fortunate morning I made a strike rich and unexpected. The late T. P. O'Connor, reputed "Father of the House of Commons," conducted in those days a column in the "Morning Post" entitled "Men and Memories." On that particular morning, and for several mornings following, "Tay Pay's" column was devoted to Abraham Lincoln—not to his political activi- ties but to the personal side of his career: to his sorrows, his repeated failures, his poverty, his great love for Ann Rutledge, and his tragic marriage to Mary Todd. I read the series with profound interest—and surprise. I had spent the first twenty years of my life in the Middle West, not far from the Lincoln country; and, in addition to that, I had always been keenly interested in United States history. I should have said that of course I knew Lincoln's life-story; but I soon discovered that I didn't. The fact is that I, an American, had had to come to London and read a series of articles written by an Irishman, in an English newspaper, before I realized that the story of Lincoln's career was one of the most fascinating tales in all the annals of mankind. Was this lamentable ignorance peculiar to me? I wondered.