A. Lincoln – This is a fairly broad, but not overly long biography of Abraham Lincoln. The book comes in at about 800 pages with notes. Some others come in at 720, 1088, 720, 800, and even 2008 pages. So this is “small”? Ronald White calls this book “A. Lincoln” in part because that’s how Lincoln signed his name, and also for the metaphorical gap in our understanding of Lincoln, and the way that people fill in that gap with whatever they seem to want […]