The Physical Lincoln: Kempf

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Kempf, Edward J. Abraham Lincoln's Philosophy of Common Sense. (3 volumes.) (Special Publication of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume VI.) New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1965.

Citations of Kempf

Kempf, a psychiatrist, wrote a 1400+ page "scientifically oriented analytical biography" of Lincoln (p. xi) that reads like a caricature of psychoanalytical double-talk. But he was serious. Chapter 1 of volume 1, titled "Lincoln's physical constitution," is filled with untenable psychiatric conclusions, yet embeds a worthy overview of the physical Lincoln. Unfortunately, it is almost devoid of references. This was the only chapter I read.