林肯传读后感锦集

《林肯传》是一本由Dale Breckenridge Carnegie著作，中央编译出版社出版的平装图书，本书定价：35.00元，页数：377，特精心收集的读后感，希望对大家能有帮助。

《林肯传》读后感(一)：卡耐基眼中的林肯

没错，这本书就是那位大家耳熟能详的卡耐基写的。

最有意思的是卡耐基在序言里说，他之所以写这本书，是因为他去英国的时候，在一份英国报纸上看见评论林肯的连载文章，才发现原来自己作为一个美国人，根本就对林肯知之甚少。后来他就决定写一本通俗简短、大众化的林肯传给一般读者读。

这真是人之常情，家门口的景点都没有去参观过，本应该知道的很多东西都不知道。像我这样今年才知道什么是“安居平五路”的人更应该去面壁思过了...

看了卡耐基的英文文笔，感叹难怪他是励志大家，因为写的很平实，很少有不认识的生僻词或者长难句什么的，但却很有感染力，比如介绍他写这本传记的时候，是在林肯生长的故乡，而写林肯和心爱的姑娘那一段，正是在那位姑娘埋葬的树下写的。

《林肯传》读后感(二)：《林肯传》获多方好评

这本书描述了一个与教科书中完全不同的林肯。卡耐基是个讲故事的大师，他展示了不幸的家庭生活和战争给这位伟人带来的痛苦。最可贵的成功的品质就是对痛苦的忍耐能力。

——Busalacchi

所有人都会面对麻烦、痛苦和一些旷日持久的折磨，常人会屈从安逸舒适的欲望，而真正的英雄只做他们认为正确的事，不惜付出巨大的代价和牺牲就要到手的利益。林肯就是这样一位英雄。

——Daniel S．Dorius

“The reader is caught at once, and from then on episode piles on episode...

Every paragraph exciting.”

——New York World Telegram

“Dramatic story crammed with all that is picturesque.”

——NNew York Times

“A sensational but sympathetic life of Lincoln…fast-moving.”

——Chicago Herald Examiner

“Has an engaging out-of-doors freshness and a sense of human intimacy...Reads like a novel.”

——New York Herald Tribune

《林肯传》读后感(三)：After read unknown Lincoln

I did wanna read biography of Abraham Lincoln,I didn't wanna know the unknown stuff,which is secret,I have no interesting in secret,especially the gossip.

At the beginning of this book,Carnegie always said this or that wasn't mentioned by other book,kinds of unknown.oh,That's not what i wanna,I wanna know the whole things of Lincoln,not just the unknown side.So I said,"This stupid unknown book is not what I wanna, I am not interesting in the gossip of Lincoln,I wanna know the great man,How could he be great,I wanna know the details, the procedure". Well,I regret again that I've bought a book just by its cover.I did wanna know something about Lincoln,There are thousands of choice,many editions as Carnegie said.Then I didn't know which one I should choose,but I was not accustomed to dig in the huge information. coincidentally I found Carnegie,is known by me. I didn't have a glimpse in "UNKNOWN",I've just gotton two key words---Lincoln and Carnegie,then I did pick it up.

Maybe I didn't get what I wanna know at the beginning,however,I know Lincoln from other profile. That is OK. "it's much better worse than none".

Maybe I gotton come back to the book. Abraham Lincoln was born humble,no property,no inheritances. He didn't get well-bred, or education.He have nothing but liberty. He was a farmer, carpenter...,But he was interested in speech, he was accustomed to harangue in public and read. Then he become a lawyer, got married with a woman he doesn't like from a big family. Cargegie said Lincoln was a workaholic for flee a way from Mary Todd,his incredible wife. There is a comment that, Lincoln is the most esteem president in American history,but his wife,Mary Todd is the most absurd Mrs president ever met in American history.What interested is Mary wanted to be a Mrs president when she was a girl, she was fond of Stephen A Douglas,a politician with a bright future. Well, Douglas didn't get Mary's love. At that time, Lincoln was just a little tiny lawyer, Mary picked Lincoln. It's obvious that Lincoln did not love her, but she Married with Lincoln, then be a Mrs President. Everyone's fate, who can predict. probably we just need to insist on our faith.

Nearly all of Lincoln's cabinet are despise Lincoln for his humble origin,etc,they boasted themselves, Lincoln endured a lot of humiliate.But he is very tough, and won the second vote in 1865 for the triumph of what Yankee defeated southerner.

Did the civil war of the united fight for slave liberty.It was totally not. Did Abraham Lincoln voted for slave liberty？,It was totally not. Lincoln just spoke that the war fight for the consolidation of the united states. If it need to get rid of slavery for the unifying of the united states, for the benefit of united,then getting rid of slavery becomes a slogan, totally just as what the gossip said,Lincoln do all the things was just in order to eliminate the slavery.

Lincoln has no religion belief, On my opinion from this book, it's that Abraham Lincoln was too humble to have religion belief.

Lincoln was very nice to treat his children, He had never criticized them for their faults but appraise what they had done well. Pretty nice Papa.

Through this book, Carnegie did mention how great Lincoln is.He describes Lincoln as a average people with some advantages,such as Lincoln's patience,endure,etc. Lincoln was not a modest people, He said no great man ever be modest!

From this book, I understand that's natural for an American looks their state over than the Union.....

《林肯传》读后感(四)：Reaction to The Unknown Lincoln

When I took photo in Lincoln Memorial, looking up to the magnific statue, I have anticipated Lincoln’s life must be extraordinary, but how could I expect his life was so tough, little fortune may ever smiled upon him, from his gentlemanlike and reserved appearance. Dale Carnegie reproduced Lincoln’s story via simple words with profound meaning to readers, and titled it as “The Unknown Lincoln”, which precisely summarize this one of the greatest man in American history, for his insignificance and lowliness before and modesty after becoming famous, for his obscure experience and private life to the world. Lincoln was always willing to be covered under other’s fame and honor, as long as for the sake of his nation. He is rough polished in living hardness, refined in numerous failures, and glorious in personality charm.

I took for granted that Lincoln was born in a noble family, but I misunderstood entirely. “For years, there in Indiana, Abraham Lincoln endured more terrible poverty than did thousands of the slaves whom he would one day liberate.” The little boy was faced with a drunk, prodigal father, and several siblings, suffering from the sad of losing his natural mother, barely any food to eat, and an extreme cold wagon to live in. So, no wonder until fifteen, Lincoln could only read a little but with difficulty. However, after attending school irregularly, he could write, and exhibited a trait which sharply distinguished him from the rest of the backwoods scholars. He wanted to write out his opinions on various topics; at times he even broke into verse. And he took his verse and prose composition to a neighbor for criticism. He memorized and recited his rhymes, and his essays attracted attention. Yet, during these broken and irregular periods, he had developed one of the most valuable assets that man can have, even from a university education: a love of knowledge and a thirst for learning. Undoubtedly, the process of thinking and writing opinions make an exact man; the desire of learning and the habit of reading benefit men’s whole spiritual affluent life. To Lincoln, his talent for humor and speech, together with his consistent learning and lasting struggle ensured his success.

I assumed that Lincoln was firmly and strongly against slavery as a matter of course. Actually, Lincoln opposed slavery in a modest way that he believed at the very beginning if they banned slavery from now on and maintained the existing slaves, the backward system would come to ruin one day. The interest conflict is the utter reason over the slavery, which may result in the split of the nation. Therefore, from my point of view, people struggled not for the slaves, but for the Union; I just doubt that how many WASPs honestly put themselves in slaves’ position.

Certainly, Lincoln demonstrated that “If God gave him but little, let him enjoy that little. He is not my equal in many respects, but in his right to enjoy ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,’ in his right to put into his mouth the bread that his hands have earned, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas and the equal of ever living man.”

Yet, the quotation below I suppose can sincerely reveal the direct attitude:

“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.”

In Lincoln Memorial, we can find a stage on which Martin Luther King once delivered the speech a hundred years after The Emancipation Proclamation. “But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.”

If Negros indulge their destiny to be subject to the profit of others, or pin their hope on the shaky American promise, they would never welcome the free day. The only way to seek for genuinely freedom, right, equity and dignity lies in their own hands. Whereas, Lincoln is not to blame, neither should American people, I can understand Lincoln’s situation and his decision.

Beside, the cruelty and loss in the Civil War to the United States and its people were inconceivable and bitter. “What if two Northern soldiers were shot for every one the South lost？ Grant could make up the wastage, but Lee couldn’t. So Grant kept on blasting and shooting and slaying.” “Such slaughter was more than human nerves and human bodies could endure. It broke the morale of the troops; the rank and file of the army were on the verge of mutiny, and the officers themselves were ready to rebel.” It seems to be easy to draw a conclusion that the North won partly because of its extensive troops. According to historical data, casualties in the North amounted to 360,000, and 258, 000 in the South. No one can ever say it’s a negligible cost.

Finally, this biography written by Dale Carnegie focuses on picturing Lincoln as a common person, not a great man in our minds. Surely, this type of writing has its own merits, yet people who want to appreciate another side of Lincoln as being a leader are well advised to choose other authors’. The book gives readers a delusion that Lincoln became the President by luck, and mentions Lincoln’s efforts after every failure casually, but emphasizes too much on Lincoln’s frustrated marriage, and how he swallowed all bitterness to himself, which may not meet audiences’ appetite. In addition, I can hardly feel the charisma in Lincoln, let alone admire it. His exceeding tolerance and forgiveness as a Christian manifest themselves as weakness as a leader more than advantage. Disappointedly, the author notices the sense of humor of our “common man”, but fails to illustrate this trait by one mere example, which creates a barrier for readers to establish the perception of this feature, pitifully.

Lincoln is a man who sacrificed all he had to his nation and is remembered by his nation eternally, and who had planned the comfortable life when his family would leave the White House at the close of his second term before the assassination, and who always showed his genuineness to his people and respected by all.

“I desire,” he said, “to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be deep down inside of me… I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.”

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