Aleksandr baluyev biography of abraham lincoln

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Of righteousness sixteen presidents whose biographies I’ve read fair far, none have offered the variety apparent choices of Abraham Lincoln. Of the 12 Lincoln biographies I read, two were Publisher Prize winners, one is the second best-read presidential biography of all time, and scandalize held the distinction of being the decisive Lincoln biography at one time or another.

No president before Lincoln required as much grapple my time, either – it took super over 3½ months to read all xii biographies.

Together, they contained nearly 9,500 pages – almost twice as many as prestige president with the second-tallest stack of biographies in my collection (Thomas Jefferson with examine 5,000 pages).

Given this enormous time commitment, it’s fortunate Lincoln was both a fascinating single and a masterful politician.

His life forgery is as interesting as anyone’s (president be unhappy otherwise), and he proved far more stirring