"Abraham Lincoln" by George S. McGovern (Times Books, $22) Reviewed by DAVID HODO, Special to the Press-Register 2009 marked the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. Much has been written about our most ...

The 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth on Thursday is being marked with an outpouring of books -- picture books, biographies, essays, books obscure and mainstream and scholarly. Here is a ...

President Abraham Lincoln sits for a portrait on Feb. 5, 1865. (Alexander Gardner/U.S. Library of Congress via Getty Images) New biographies of Abraham Lincoln inevitably invite the question: Why does ...

The short and simple annals of the poor -- Young man on his own -- Frontier legislator: his love affairs -- Courtship and marriage -- Lawyer-politician -- The gentleman from Illinois -- Echoes of ...