Stephen Aron | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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Book Review

Lincoln of Kentucky. By Lowell H. Harrison. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. x, 305 pp. $22.00, ISBN 0-8131-2156-6.)

This book, by one of the most distinguished and prolific historians of Kentucky, is not, as its title suggests, another biography of the Bluegrass State's most famous son. Instead, Lowell H. Harrison has focused on "the interrelationship between Lincoln and Kentucky." Indeed, "Lincoln and Kentucky" would seem a more appropriate title, for, although the sixteenth president was from Kentucky, he was hardly of it. After all, he spent only his first few years as a resident of the state. Moreover, during his later political career, Kentuckians definitely did not embrace him as one of their own. In 1860, he polled only 1,364 votes in the state. Four years later, Lincoln was swamped again, with Kentucky being one of only three states to vote for George McClellan. Even after his assassination, Kentuckians were slow to reclaim Lincoln for Kentucky. . . .

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