A Texas Bluebonnet: Lady Bird Johnson Book

Having been interested in the life of Abraham Lincoln for many years and, having read most reputable one-volume biographies of the statesman, I found this one eminently readable and entertaining. The author relies on a vast array of reliable scholarship to piece together Lincoln's life (here, from his birth and origins to the eve of Civil War). He also shares much of the President's wit and humor. Also of interest is the charting of the Lincoln-Douglas rivalry, to the point that this work approaches, but only to a degree, "parallel lives." It should be noted that the author does not even attempt to hide his admiration for the great man, so my fellow Southerners, especially the un-Reconstructed ones, will not be as entertained as I was. But they will be ably informed and edified.