向伟大的解放者致敬

——《亚伯拉罕·林肯传》读后感 人生之路漫长又坎坷，人生之旅中充满了成功与失败，布满了玫瑰和荆棘，在艰难的跋涉中，我们选择了成功，同时也就选择了失败。人们往往都希望自己成功，去收获那片喜悦，然而却害怕面对失败，害怕体味那份苦涩，近日，我在一本书中读到一个人的简历，面对那一串串的数字，我震惊了，也感动了??

亚伯拉罕·林肯，美国第十六任总统，首位共和党总统，被赞誉为：伟大的解放者。他是反蓄奴主义者，认为奴隶制度应该消灭。25岁前，他没有固定职业，四处谋生。1860年11月当选为总统。大选揭晓后，南方种植园主发动叛变，南方11个州宣布成立“美利坚诸州联盟”。1861年4月，南北战争爆发。林肯号召民众为维护联邦统一而战。1862年9月，林肯颁布《解放黑奴宣言》，废除黑奴制。三年后，南方叛军投降。同年4月14日晚，伟大的解放者林肯在华盛顿的福特剧院遇刺身亡。人们都称他为“新时代国家统治者的楷模”；惠特曼写下了《啊，船长！我的船长》、《今天的军营静悄悄》等诗篇；马克思高度评价道：“他是一个不会被苦难所吓倒、不会为成功所迷惑的人。他不屈不挠地迈向自己的伟大目标，而从不轻举妄动，他稳步向前，从不倒退。”

林肯更是一位著名的演说家，他的《葛底斯堡说词》中说：“我今天在这里说话，也许世人不会注意也不会记住，但是这些英雄的业

绩，人们会永世不忘。我们后来者应该做的，是献身于英雄们曾在此为之奋斗、努力推进但尚未完成的工作。我们应该献身于他们遗留给我们的伟大任务。我们的先烈已将自己的全部心血赋予我们的事业，我们应从他们的榜样中汲取更多的精神力量，下定决心使他们的鲜血不至白流??我们这个民有、民治、民享的政府将永存于世上。”

林肯，虽然出生于贫苦农民家庭，但却为奴隶制度的废除奉献了一生。他是美国著名的演说家，更是美国最具影响力的几位总统之一。他在为废除奴隶制的道路上历经艰险：有人们的不屑、参议员的竞选失败、朋友的误解、南北战争的叛乱、内部少数党派的敌对??但是，最终林肯还是成功的当选了美国总统并且发表了《解放奴隶宣言》、废除了奴隶制度。

我想：大凡伟人能成功，大多数经受失败的挫折。我们要想得到玫瑰，就必然要准备接受失败的利刺，我们要想使自己快乐，就必然要经得起失败后的调节??还是那句话：失败并不可怕，关键是我们以什么样的态度去对待。让我们向林肯这位伟人致敬，向这位伟大的解放者致敬！

 

第二篇：林肯传读书报告

The Book Report of Abraham Lincoln

Name:陈翠玲 Class:13级英教（2）班 No:20130431302

Abraham Lincoln (Feb.12, 1809 - Apr.15, 1865) was the 16th President of the US. He successfully led the country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil war – preserving the country, ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization in the American History.

The book Abraham Lincoln: A New Birth of Freedom written by Janet and Geoff Benge describes Lincoln’s whole life, from a little boy whose childhood was full of hardships to become the most admirable President of the United States.

In brief, the book is consisted with three parts: Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln, Congressman Lincoln and layer Lincoln, Presidency and the Civil War. The author spent about half of the book (from chapter 1 to chapter 11) to describe Abraham Lincoln’s early life. This part maybe a little boring to me, but it is necessary to give an introduction to the readers about Lincoln’s early life. In this section, the writer told the story of Abraham Lincoln about his family and childhood, early career and militia service.

Though the first section is a little boring to me, I learned that when Abraham Lincoln was young, he encountered many frustrations. When he was young his father lost all of the land, then his mother died, and he had done varied kinds of job, such as a ferry worker, a carpenter. While young Lincoln's formal elementary education consisted approximately of a year's worth of classes from several itinerant teachers, he was mostly self-educated and was an avid reader. It was his great tenacity and optimism that made him to be the unique President in American history. When Abraham Lincoln was 22 years old, he decided to seek a better life. In 1832, at age 23, Lincoln began his political career in the Illinois General Assembly. He had attained local popularity and could draw crowds as a natural raconteur in New Salem, though he lacked an education, powerful friends, and money, which may be why he lost. But during this period of time, he accumulated a certain amount of experience, which laid

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a foundation for his later success.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term. He was the only Whig in the Illinois delegation, but he showed his party loyalty by participating in almost all votes and making speeches that echoed the party line. Not satisfied with the new appointment, Lincoln declined and resumed his law practice.

At that time, slavery was one of the most controversial political topics. Abraham Lincoln was strongly against slavery because he thought slavery was evil and it violated the equality of all men. By the 1850s, slavery was still legal in the southern United States but had been generally outlawed in the northern states, such as Illinois. Lincoln disapproved of slavery, and the spread of slavery to new U.S. territory in the west. He returned to politics to oppose slavery and became a Democratic Party member, just as he wrote, "I think I am a Whig, but others say there are no Whigs, and that I am an abolitionist, even though I do no more than oppose the extension of slavery." After the state Republican Party convention nominated him for the U.S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech; the best-known passage of the speech is "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. "

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the sixteenth president of the United States. Then 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America; the other 25 states supported the federal government. On April 12, 1861, the war began; Confederate forces attacked a U.S. military installation, Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property, which led to declarations of secession by four more slave states. When the war started, the northern was not enough prepared, the federal government was in a bad situation, demonstrations broke out in many cities.

Abraham Lincoln faced enormous challenges, he eventually realized only rely on the masses of the people, the government can win the war more quickly. In 1862, the

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Homestead Act and Emancipation Proclamation were issued by Lincoln respectively. This let the situation become beneficial to the government. In 1863, confederate General Robert E. Lee was defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg. The Union gained control of the war. After several Campaigns, on April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House, the Union won the war at last.

On April 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor. And the whole country was plunged into mourning. Abraham Lincoln ended his short but glorious life. In short, George Washington created the United States, while Abraham Lincoln Saved the United States.

Generally speaking, I like the book because of the author wrote in a very simple way and used little complex words or sentence. So the book is easy to read. The only drawback is the author spent too much of the content to describe the Abraham Lincoln’s early life so that something about Presidency and the Civil War had to be omitted.

Cite Reference

[1]. Justine Fontes;Ron Fontes. Abraham Lincoln: Lawyer, Leader, Legend, January 2001 DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), New York.

[2]. Seth Grahame. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, First Edition: April 2010 Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group, New York.

[3]. Sullivan, George Scholastic Paperbacks. Abraham Lincoln, Scholastic Reference, 2001.

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