![]() ![]() During these years, as Americans struggled to understand their loss and rebuild their country, Lincoln's legacy was still hotly debated. Told through the voices of those who knew the man?Northerners and Southerners, blacks and whites, neighbors and family members, adversaries and colleagues?Looking for Lincoln charts the dramatic epilogue to Lincoln's extraordinary life. Availing themselves of a vast collection of both published and never-before-seen materials, the authors?the fourth and fifth generations of a family of Lincoln scholars?bring into focus the posthumous portrait of Lincoln that took hold in the American imagination. 'An extensively researched, lavishly illustrated consideration of the myths, memories, and questions that gathered around our most beloved?and most enigmatic?president in the years between his assassination and the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922. A biography by three well-known Lincoln biographers, with an introduction by presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (author of A Team of Rivals) and a foreword by David Herbert Donald, who also wrote an authoritative biography of Abraham Lincoln. ![]()
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