2009-02-28T08:00:37-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/725/283934-m.jpgRonald White talked about A. Lincoln: A Biography (Random House; January 13, 2009). In the ...

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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.

Between this fall and the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth in February 2009, publishers will overwhelm bookstores and readers alike with a flood of more than 60 titles on the ever-popular president.

AND THERE WAS LIGHT: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE by Jon Meacham, Random House, 676 pages, $40 Every generation gets its own Abraham Lincoln biography. But if time seems to move faster ...

Fun fact: Feb. 12, 1809, is the birthdate for both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. While we tend to contemplate “The Great Emancipator” as fully formed well before he became the 16th president, ...

“Loving Lincoln” encompasses the women he befriended, defended in divorce actions, those who wrote to seek pardons and government offices for their husbands, writers like Ida Tarbell, Ruth Painter ...