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oshua Wolf Shenk does not
have Jewish content of note
in his first book, but he
does believe his approach reflects
Jewish thinking. Shenk, a freelance
writer exploring the emotional out-
look of Abraham Lincoln, hopes to
open the subject to discourse and
considers that in line with his reli-
gious background.
Lincoln's Melancholy: How
Depression Challenged a President
and Fueled His Greatness (Houghton
Mifflin; $25) took the author seven
years to complete.
"My conclusion is not
final, and in some ways,
that's a very Jewish
approach," says Shenk, 34,
who tapped into original
sources as he researched
the life of the 16th U.S.
president. "The tradition
of Jewish theological. dis-
cussion is that you have
this core text, which is the
Torah, and talk about it a
lot.
"With Lincoln, we have
this core text of letters,
oral histories and other basic materials
about his life, and with this book, I'm
having a discussion about these
intriguing elements [that I uncovered].
"Lincoln's melancholy was pushed to
the margins for most of the last half of
the 20th century, and I am playing a
part in restoring it to its rightful place
as one of the center points of his story"
j
No Easy Answers
Shenk was working as a journalist in
Washington, D.C., when he came up
with the idea for the book. At the time,
he was looking into a history of men-
tal illness in his family and addressing
his own problems coping with depres-
sion.
•
"I had a primal desire to learn
about this thing that I identified with
so much:' he says. "I wanted to be
taken out of my own narrow circum-
stances to learn something of the
broader stories that history and wider
studies offer."
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a lid FuTit7:1 f-1; Grcfat
Joshua Wolf Shenk:
"Lincoln's melan-
choly was pushed to
the margins for most
of the last half of
the 20th century,
and I am playing a
part in restoring it
to its rightful place
as one of the center
points of his story."
As Shenk researched Lincoln's life,
he looked for the impressions shared
by the people who knew the late presi-
dent best — family members, friends
and close colleagues. He follows those
views within the context of tragedies
Lincoln suffered and goes beyond
those specific circumstances for a
more general understanding.
The author describes what he
defines as mood swings; two break-
downs and actions taken by Lincoln to
overcome despondency. He probed the
behavior he portrays by talking with
mental health professionals.
"I drew on modern psychology only
insofar as it would help me understand
something that I already was seeing in
Lincoln's life rather than trying to take
a theory and find things in Lincoln's
life that would fit it:' says Shenk, who
wanted to report what he came across
in his research and not what he would
like to see because of his personal con-
nection to the material:
"I was fortunate to work with an