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From his obscure birth to his shocking death, Abraham Lincoln provided all the ingredients for a myth that grows with each passing generation. A hardworking, self-taught farm boy grows up to become President, leads the nation through a wrenching cataclysm and is killed at the moment of victory...
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...Lewis and Clark, then focused on Ben Franklin and last year chose Thomas Jefferson. This year we decided to dedicate an issue to a man who may not have been there at America's founding but sealed its character by prosecuting a civil war over the scourge of slavery. "Lincoln has long been a favorite subject for historians," says executive editor Priscilla Painton, who conceived and supervised the package, "but this year, with a wealth of new research emerging, there's a fresh passion to get past the icon and find the real character...
...project, we bring you stories from writers on the verge of publishing some major works of Lincoln scholarship. In our opening piece, author Joshua Wolf Shenk shows how much closer historians are coming these days to demystifying the Civil War President, both by humanizing him and by delineating his exceptional talents. Shenk's forthcoming book, Lincoln's Melancholy, focuses on how depression simultaneously challenged Lincoln and made him stronger. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin offers us a preview of her forthcoming work on Lincoln's political genius by showing how different aspects of Lincoln's deep emotional intelligence made...
...Lincoln issue allowed Civil War buffs at TIME to indulge their passion. Graphics director Jackson Dykman scoured dozens of histories to present a succinct picture of Lincoln as a micromanaging commander who sacked seven generals before settling on Ulysses S. Grant. Deputy art director Cynthia Hoffman and photo researcher Jessica Cruz sifted through the imagery of a wartime era more powerfully documented than any before it. Reporters Andrea Dorfman and Deirdre van Dyk immersed themselves in new scholarship. Says Painton: "Lincoln is fascinating because the more you dig, the more layers you find." In fact, we hope you'll visit...