Another account of Abraham Lincoln? Aren't there enough of them? Actually, no. Among the 16,000-plus books on Lincoln, there have been many superb ones, some of them long (e.g., the 10-volume 1890 opus by John Nicolay and John Hay); others short, such as James McPherson's lean biography of 2009; and others midsize, like David Herbert Donald's single-volume classic, titled simply “Lincoln” (1995). There is always room for another, of course. But any new work faces the question: What is being added to the Lincoln literature?
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