![]() ![]() White argues, an appreciation for the other fellow’s point of view. He was a grizzled trial veteran who handled contested wills, railroad tax tangles and even murder cases. White notes, Lincoln could not have been more unlike most of today’s lawyer-politicians, few of whom have spent much time trying cases. White aims at the general reader, not the specialist, and pauses helpfully to define terms (“doughfaces,” for instance, are Northerners with Southern sympathies). Douglas and his election, in 1860, as the first presidential standard-bearer for the new Republican Party and, as it turned out, the country’s leader in a time of war. White delivers a strong narrative that moves neatly from Lincoln’s boyhood in Kentucky and legal career in Illinois to his rise within the Whig Party, his defeat in the 1858 Senate race to Stephen A. ![]() Taking advantage of newly available resources, such as the recent publication of the voluminous Lincoln Legal Papers, Mr. White Jr., is the first comprehensive, single-volume biography of Lincoln since David Herbert Donald’s in 1996. Lincoln” (Random House, 796 pages, $35), by Ronald C. ![]()
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