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Migration Catchall. The th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth on Thursday is being marked with an outpouring of books -- picture books, biographies, essays, books obscure and mainstream and scholarly. Here is a sampling of some of the best:. At just 96 pages, this probably qualifies more as an essay than a biography, but if you consider it as the first book you read on Abraham Lincoln, it's a bargain.

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McPherson, our greatest living Civil War historian, has written a clear-headed narrative that leads you through the major facts of Lincoln's life and brilliant assessments of the major challenges he faced and overcame in his four years. A superb bibliography recaps the history of Lincoln literature. McPherson's summaries of Lincoln's accomplishments as well as his deficiencies are lucid and balanced.

On Lincoln's record on individual rights during the Civil War, for instance, "One thing can be said with certainty: compared with the enforcement of espionage and sedition laws in World War I and the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II, Lincoln's curtailment of civil liberties during the far greater internal crisis Lincoln is one of the few presidents to be claimed by both liberals and conservatives.

An example: In our 16th president, writes McGovern, "We see the decency of popular government. Its role, then as now, was, as Lincoln wrote 'to elevate the condition of men To him democracy was an experiment that the world had not seen before. Simply put, McGovern makes a convincing case that America's first Republican president was really our first Democratic president.

Kaplan, author of superb literary biographies of Mark Twain and Henry James as well as "The Imagination of Genius, Charles Dickens and Thomas Carlyle," examines Lincoln as a wordsmith and as both a creator and shaper of prose literature. In the Gettysburg address, "Lincoln encapsulated a lifetime of experience and the dynamic interconnection between life and death.

It affirms that the poetry of loss is, by virtue of its poetic essence, also the poetry that makes sense out of life.