Best Quote by Fred Kaplan

I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from…

— Fred Kaplan

There are so many books out about Abraham Lincoln out now because it's the bicentennial of his birth. I've known a lot about the…

— Aaron Dessner

What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what…

— David Herbert Donald

“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they…

— Henry Ketcham

The best one-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln is still Benjamin Thomas's 1952 biography. David Donald's 1995 biography is a close second, and close enough…

— Allen C. Guelzo

You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.

— Christie Hefner

Words about Lincoln fill a small but ever-growing library.

— Fred Kaplan

“The problem is that we tend too often to read Lincoln's growth backward, as an unproblematic trajectory toward a predetermined end. This enables scholars…

— Eric Foner

Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in history henceforth.…

— Eric Foner

The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a…

— John Ortberg

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time…

— David Herbert Donald

If you read with empathy what Lincoln went through, then you realize what you're going through is nothing compared to what he went through.

— George W. Bush