Lincoln. From: The Nation | Date: November 20, 1995| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1995 The Nation Company L.P. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

David Herbert Donald, Simon and Schuster. 714 pp $35

Every generation of American reinvents Abraham Lincoln in its own image. Politicians fro conservatives to communists, civil rights activists to Dixiecrats have claimed him as their own. Self-made man, frontier hero, liberator of the slaves--he embodies core American ideals and myths.

Immediately after his death, Lincoln was enshrined in popular memory as the Great Emancipator. Later, when the white North and South had reconciled and the Civil War came to be seen as a needless conflict in which slavery played only a minor ...

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