| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.2

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Book Review

Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends. By Ferenc Morton Szasz. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. xiv, 242 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8093-2855-0.)

Ferenc Morton Szasz is Regents' Professor of History at the University of New Mexico and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. His experiences at both institutions and his earlier publications have prepared him for this book comparing the American icon Abraham Lincoln and Scottish hero Robert Burns. Szasz argues that, although the two men did not live at the same time—Burns died in 1796, thirteen years before Lincoln was born—Burns became Lincoln's favorite writer and an influence on his prose and thought, as the result of Burns's fame and the passage of his verse to the United States through Scottish immigrants.

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