The best Lincoln Bio out there. Well written and largely written based on personal notes Lincoln wrote to himself and squirreled away into random places. As luck would have it, these notes where known to others and thus preserved after his death. These notes give us a view into his thinking and feeling on issues and puts to rest any claim that he was racist and supported slavery. It also reveals how religious he became as he grew older. It glosses over his battles with depression. Battles that got so bad that Joshua Speed and friends would remove all sharp objects from his room and barricade him inside until the fit passed. Even with this detail of his life glossed over, this is still the best Lincoln Bio to read.