Midstream: Lincoln the President

xiii, 467 pp. "One of the most difficult and challenging tasks a historian can undertake is to present a fresh, new, major book on Lincoln. Mr. Randall has succeeded brilliantly." "The Lincoln we meet here is convincing, is freed from myths and the too-heavy coating of folklore that has often obscured him. And this comes about not because of any adjectives or eloquence on the part of the biographer. He has simply taken the new and vast material lately discovered and added it to the known facts and then, with careful discrimination, laid them out so that for the first time we get a nearly complete picture of the man."