Two years ago, Paul Tetreault, director of Ford’s Theater in Washington, declared that there are more books written about Abraham Lincoln than any other person than Jesus Christ. The estimate ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Robert W. Merry ABE Abraham Lincoln in His Times By David S. Reynolds Of the 16,000 books ...

Both men were born in Kentucky, about the same age, married with young children. They were tall and imposing: Lincoln 6-foot-4, Davis 6-foot, and they had been U.S. congressmen in the 1840s.

By my informal count, there are more than 15 books out in the past year devoted to various aspects of Lincoln’s assassination ranging in tone from the crisply historical to the maudlin and ghoulish.

Selected by Harold Holzer, the author, most recently of ‘Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration.’ ...

Books: Lincoln on the Scmgamon. 4 minute read. TIME. July 5, ... The result is a book like a bucket of well water, without structure, simple-tasting, but real as rock and very clear.

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