Ronald C White
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Lincoln scholar Ronald C. White, Jr., describes Lincoln as a man of integrity -- what today's commentators would call "authenticity" -- whose moral compass holds the key to understanding his life. Everyone wants to define the man who signed his name "A. Lincoln." In his lifetime and ever since, friend and foe have taken it upon themselves to characterize Lincoln according to their own label or libel. Through meticulous research of the newly completed...
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"The first full-color facsimile edition of Lincoln's private notes, Abraham Lincoln's Diary is a deluxe collection of some of his most revelatory private writings. An essential archive, here presented exactly as Lincoln wrote them on scraps of paper, these "notes to self" appear alongside original, contextualizing essays by New York Times bestselling presidential biographer Ronald C. White. A deeply private man, closed off to even those who worked...