Abraham Lincoln Author:Benjamin P. Thomas Notwithstanding the great number of books that have been written aboout Abraham Lincoln during our generation...there has been no accurate, readable one-volume biography... — The last satisfactory life of Lincoln within the covers of a single volume was written by Lord CHarnwood, an Englishman, and published 35 years ago. That is still an excelle... more »nt book, but we have learned much more about Lincoln during those 35 years. Indeed, the very intensity of Lincoln study during that period, with...the research done by the Abraham Lincoln Association, and the investigations of a host of other students into one phase or another of Lincoln's life, makes the correlation and condensation of our findings all the more imperitive.« less