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Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame — WisdomDeck honest review
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Abraham Lincoln: A Life

by Michael Burlingame

The two-volume, two-thousand-page definitive life, with the author's lifetime of newly found sources. For the serious Lincoln reader.

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  1. Depth rewards.
  2. Sources change portraits.
  3. Lincoln grew.

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