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Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and an eloquent spokesman for Union, freedom, and democracy, Abraham Lincoln is one of the most studied and beloved of all Americans. This biography, the first comprehensive one to appear in two-thirds of a century, builds on a foundation of abundant fresh materials—some recently unearthed, others drawn from more traditional sources that historians have underutilized. It offers new interpretations, connecting Lincoln’s private and public lives, and incorporates the findings of countless excellent scholarly works on nineteenth-century America published since the appearance of the only comparable multi-volume biography, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (two volumes, 1926), and Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (four volumes, 1939). Unlike the ten-volume life-and-times biography of Lincoln that his White House secretaries John G. Nicolay and John Hay published in 1890, this work does not attempt to relate the history of the Civil War. The focus here remains Lincoln himself. Telling the story of Lincoln’s life in detail, this narrative aims to avoid a problem that the eminent Civil War historian Allan Nevins identified. “Heavy compression,” he warned, could leave a biography of Lincoln “pemmicanized—nutritious but flavorless.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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