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Abraham Lincoln and civil war. (Nonfiction).(America: A Biography)
AMERICA: A Biography
WILLIAM E. GIENAPP. Oxford Univ., $25
(256p) ISBN 0-19-515099-6
Harvard history professor Gienapp (The Origins of the Republican Party) devotes a mere 70 pages of his brief new biography to Abraham Lincoln's prepresidential life; in a volume that "synthesizes modern scholarship about Lincoln" with the author's own studies, the Civil War years rightfully get most of the attention. At 51, Lincoln was one of the youngest men to be elected president, and he was also the first Westerner. Something of an unknown to Republican Party power brokers back east, Lincoln didn't have time to prove himself viable before South Carolina seceded …
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