The Life Of Abraham Lincoln Author:Henry Ketcham FROM THE AUTHOR: "The question will naturally be raised, Why should there be another Life of Lincoln? This may be met by a counter question, Will there ever be a time in the near future when there will not be another Life of Lincoln? There is always a new class of students and a new enrollment of citizens. Every year many thousands of young peop... more »le pass from the Grammar to the High School grade of our public schools. Other thousands are growing up into manhood and womanhood. These are of a different constituency from their fathers and grandfathers who remember the civil war and were perhaps in it." Ketcham's 1901 biography of Lincoln was written at a point that many consider to be ideal for such a work: long enough after the events that objectivity and historical context are easier to discern, but not so long that memories have completely faded or been distorted by legend. The result is one of the best short biographies of our late, great 16th President.« less