Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times by David S. Reynolds (review).

David S. Reynolds, Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times. [2] Reynolds immerses us in Lincoln's immersive cultural experience and argues that Lincoln was adept in "traversing a culture's idioms" and sought to direct "the many cultural forces in America that tended toward conflict, fragmentation, and... chaos" with an eye toward achieving "order, justice, and fairness" (pp. xv, xx, xvi). White has made a habit of doing creative research to produce insightful work that embeds Lincoln and the history of his administration in the contours of popular and political culture.[8] There will be thousands more biographies of Lincoln, but I suggest flipping the Lincoln archive for non-biographical purposes. [Extracted from the article]