Real Lincoln: A True Portrait Dawn from the Testimony of His Friends and Contemporaries by Charles Minor

The author of this important volume offers a concise, yet compelling, expose of the sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. This book is documented extensively and exclusively from Northern sources, many of which include Lincoln’s former friends and associates. As Minor points out, “Few who read this book will escape the conclusion that The Real Lincoln was a very different man, in his private and in his public life, from what the world’s verdict has pronounced him to be.”