In the Church of Lincoln
There have times during the last year when the most important political figure in the United States seemed not to be Barack Obama, but Abraham Lincoln. In his deft review of a number of new books on Lincoln (all released to coincide with the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth), Ari Kelman observes that the 2008 election seemed at times to be a referendum on who could claim the mantle of the sixteenth president. Obama shrewdly promoted this storyline…
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