Abraham Lincoln: Buy one get one free

Lincoln’s Great Depression Atlantic October 2008
Joshua Wolf Shenk is the author of the forthcoming book Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness (Houghton Mifflin), from which this article is adapted


There is a review of Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan in Washington Post (needs registering for to access) which is a companion piece to the Atlantic article.