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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacker (Library of America, two volumes, 1,684 pp., $35 per volume)

Abraham Lincoln was the nation’s tragic hero. No American has ever climbed over so many obstacles to rise so high; none has fallen so precipitously at the moment of his triumph. In the nearly 125 years since his death, Lincoln has become the suffering servant and the man of sorrows of American civil religion.

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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacker (Library of America, two volumes, 1,684 pp., $35 per volume)

Abraham Lincoln was the nation’s tragic hero. No American has ever climbed over so many obstacles to rise so high; none has fallen so precipitously at the moment of his triumph. In the nearly 125 years since his death, Lincoln has become the suffering servant and the man of sorrows of American civil religion.