Abraham Lincoln’s longtime law partner, William H. (“Billy”) Herndon, claimed to know Lincoln more intimately than anyone else. “Lincoln to the world is a profound mystery—an enigma—a ...

We Are Lincoln Men:Abraham Lincoln and His Friends; David Herbert Donald;Simon & Schuster: 270 pp., $25 President Lincoln, as his friends knew him - Los Angeles Times ...

In “Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln,” Charles Strozier brings to life the bond between Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed that helped shape the presidency — and also puts to bed a few Lincoln ...

We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and his Friends, recently released in paperback, analyzes six key friendships in Lincoln’s life by blending psychoanalytic theory with historical fact.

The friends include Abraham Jonas, an Illinois lawyer and one of the first to suggest Lincoln’s candidacy for the presidency. In an 1860 letter, Lincoln told Jonas, “You are one of my most ...

Yes, Gumby, says Dr. Gary Phillip Zola, author of “We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, a Documentary History” (Southern Illinois University Press).

It’s easy sometimes to forget that our heroes are human — especially, as is the case with Abraham Lincoln — when we build magnificent monuments to their memory, where the attitude is ...

The first time the journalist Noah Brooks saw Abraham Lincoln, in 1856, he was underwhelmed. The former one-term congressman had come to address a Republican club in Dixon, Ill., where Brooks ...

A whopping 16,000 books have been written about President Abraham Lincoln. But a new book and an exhibit at the New York Historical Society tell ...