| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon. Ed. by Gabor Boritt. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xxviii, 324 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-514458-8.)

In The Lincoln Enigma, the editor, Gabor Boritt, has gathered a group of talented historians to examine the life and legacy of America's most remarkable president. Virtually all of the contributors to this volume have written important books that have advanced our understanding of Lincoln. The result is an engaging collection of lucid essays that provides an excellent introduction to Lincoln scholarship for the general reader. 1

Many of the topics explored here cover familiar territory, including Lincoln's ideas about the Constitution, his boyhood, marriage, and Civil War military leadership. Some of these scholars, who have written extensively on Lincoln, struggle with the challenge of saying something new about this familiar figure. Several of the essays, such as Jean Baker's on Lincoln's marriage and David Donald's on Lincoln as a military leader, retrace themes explored in earlier work. . . .

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