| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Lincoln. By Richard J. Carwardine. (Harlow, Eng.: Pearson, 2003. xviii, 352 pp. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-582-03279-2.)

Britons have manifested a special interest in Abraham Lincoln ever since the Civil War. Witness for instance the erection of Lincoln memorials in London and Manchester, the production of John Drinkwater's play in the early twentieth century, and during World War I the great biography by Lord Charnwood, published when democracy was being tested in Europe as it had been in America a half century before. Benjamin Thomas called Charnwood's book the best one-volume life of Lincoln ever written, and so it was until Thomas wrote his own a few years later (1952). Richard J. Carwardine has carried on this British tradition of excellence with a volume that was the deserving recipient of the Lincoln Prize last year. There is no other Lincoln biography quite like it.

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