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Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
by Fred Kaplan
Lincoln's self-education through reading, Shakespeare, Burns, the Bible, and how it made his prose. Literary biography.
Read it if…
you want the books that made Lincoln.
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Skip it if…
you want the presidency.
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Three things you will actually use
- Read deeply, not widely.
- Style comes from models.
- Self-education works.
Do this first
Read the chapters on his early reading.
Our verdict
Lincoln's reading.
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