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Abraham Lincoln: Traditional Values. DVD. color. 47 min. Bestrom Agency. 2005. $19.95.
K-Gr 5--Gerald Bestrom is an Abraham Lincoln look-alike and a Lincoln re-enactor. This program features a school performance of his one-man show with a live audience of students and teachers sitting on the gym floor. There is also a short interview with the performer on a separate track. Dressed in Lincoln's traditional black suit and stovepipe hat, Bestrom delivers a reasonably good monologue about the trials and tribulations of Lincoln's time. He talks about the books Abe read and how difficult it was for him to procure them; the "blabbing school" of Lincoln's day where every…