Lincoln and the Civil War
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, SIXTEENTH president of the United States, is said to be the subject of more books in English than any man save Jesus. A towering figure by any definition of the word—he remains to this day the tallest man ever to be president—Lincoln dominates American history and popular memory like no other. Lincoln entered the White House at a moment of supreme crisis. When he left his home of Springfield for the capital, he told the gathered crowd, “I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.” He returned only in death, but as savior of the Union and author of the Emancipation Proclamation.1
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