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In this intriguing biography, English professor and literary biographer Kaplan (The Singular Mark Twain) analyzes Abraham Lincoln's writings, from the great civic anthems of his presidency to love ...

SPRINGFIELD — Author Lois Romano will discuss her Mary Lincoln biography during two upcoming events at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Romano's book, "An Inconvenient Widow: The ...

THE DIARY OF A PUBLIC MAN, Prefatory Notes by F. Lauriston Bullard (Rutgers Univ. Press, $3.00) ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE WIDOW BIXBY, by F. Lauriston Ballard (Rutgers Univ. Press, $3.00) LINCOLN’S WAR ...

UNTIL twenty or twenty-five years ago, Lincoln biography was largely the concern of three kinds of writers: those who had known Lincoln in life, those who were impelled to produce a labor of love, and ...

The other day, in passing, a friend of mine asked me, “Why would someone write yet another biography of Abraham Lincoln? Aren’t there enough already?” I was dumbfounded and mumbled some half-answer.

A politician is up for reelection, holding firm to their moral convictions — however politically unpopular — in the pursuit of preserving an endangered democracy. Sound familiar? A new biography by ...