<p><b>Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame''s impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.</b></p><p>Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, freedom, and democracy, Abraham Lincoln is arguably the most studied and admired of all Americans. Michael Burlingame''s astonishing <i>Abraham Lincoln: A Life, </i>an updated, condensed version of the 2,000-page two-volume set that <i>The Atlantic</i> hailed as one of the five best books of 2009, offers fresh interpretations of this endlessly fascinating American leader.</p><p>Based on deep research in unpublished sources as well as newly digitized sources, this work reveals how Lincoln''s character and personality were the North''s secret weapon in the Civil War, the key variables that spelled the difference between victory and defeat. He was a model of psychological maturity a
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