Portrait for posterity: Lincoln and his biographers

by Benjamin Platt Thomas

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Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir
DDC/MDS: 973.7 — History & geography History of North America United States Civil War Era (1857-1865)
LCC: E457 .T43 — History of the United States United States Civil War period, 1861-1865 Lincoln's administrations, 1861-April 15, 1865

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