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Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
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He was not, of course, the first eminent American politician who could claim humble origins, nor the first to exploit them.†
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eminent = respected and famous or important
But few have been able to point to such a sudden ascent from relative obscurity to high eminence; none has maintained so completely while scaling the heights the aspect of extreme simplicity; and none has combined with the attainment of success and power such122 an intense awareness of humanity and moral responsibility.†
Subsection 1
Years later, when the two were preparing their study of him, Herndon objected to Jesse Weik's desire to stress Lincoln's legal eminence: "How are you going to make a great lawyer out of Lincoln?†
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He had always been pre-eminently a man of peace.†
Subsection 5

eminently = with high standing
Is it possible to recall anyone else in modern history who could exercise so much power and yet feel so slightly the private corruption of Lincoln's personal eminence in the human calendar—that he was chastened and not intoxicated by power.†
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Definitions:

(1) (eminent)
famous, respected, or important within a particular field or profession
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)