Divided into parts, this title is composed of anecdotes and quotes from the life of Abraham Lincoln. They are snapshots into his life that encourage the reader to learn more about our sixteenth president. While I enjoyed the stories and smiled, laughed and cried by turn, it is not a sit through and read book.
For me, at least, I enjoy more a continuous narrative as opposed to anecdotal starts and stops. This is a companion book; one you pick up and read for a bit in between activities or other books.
Favorite Quotes:
Speaking of a lawyer: "He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."
In response to a letter: "Dear Madam, 'When you ask a stranger for that which is of interest only to yourself, always inclose [sic] a stamp.' "
Regarding himself and General McClellan: "...well, I'm the longest, but he's better-looking."
In response to a temperance committee's belief that the curse of the Lord was being visited upon the Union for the Army's drinking: "he said it was rather unfair on the part of the aforesaid curse, as the other side drank more and worse whiskey than ours did." (Lincoln himself did not drink.)
Overall Opinion:
Take your time with it the more better to enjoy the anecdotes rather than trying to get through them.
Rating:
8
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