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Book Review


Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency. By William C. Harris. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xii, 412 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1520-9.)
William C. Harris's Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency examines Abraham Lincoln's political rise to national prominence. Harris, the author of nine books, including two on Lincoln, proposes to explain Lincoln's rise in the "context of the times and [to] provide fresh insights on his prepresidential career" (p. 3). Although he does not break any new historiographic ground, Harris presents a needed update to the literature on Lincoln's early career in this well-written narrative. . . .
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