Books: Lively Lincoln

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (548 pp.) — Benjamin P. Thomas—Knopf ($5.75).

LINCOLN FINDS A GENERAL, VOL. Ill (585 pp.)—Kenneth P. Williams—Mocmillan ($7.50).

Nearly 90 years after his death—and with some 5,000 books already published about him—Abraham Lincoln is still one of the livest subjects in U.S. letters. So far this year, twelve new books about him have appeared, and several more are already in sight for 1953. Side by side with the inevitable dust-catchers are a few standouts that ought to have just as much appeal for the general reader as for Lincoln students.

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