R keith harris biography of abraham lincoln

Greetings friends!

How many books are there about Abraham Lincoln? I mean, I am not sure - but it is certainly more than any mortal could ever read. Just for a visual reference - take a look at the pic with the ginormous collection of books looming behind me.

This is the Ford’s Theater Museum gift shop in Washington City - which boasts a tower of Lincoln books numbering in the thousands, or so it appears.

My Obsession with Biographies — Keith Harris History

But - there is always room for more. Case in point: way back in , Michael Burlingame published an epic two-volume biography,Abraham Lincoln: A Life. But what’s even better than that, Johns Hopkins (who published it) just released a single-volume edition, edited and abridged by Jonathan W. White.

And I can’t recommend it enough. If you think reading such a biography, which weighs in at over pages (and this is the abridged version), is not worth the investment of time, let me try and convince you otherwise.

Reading such a biography is cruci