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Although the opening two hundred pages take a while to get going, I've never enjoyed a work of nonfiction so completely. Much of the credit - most of it - goes to Lincoln himself, whose moral, personal and political greatness are nourishing to the soul, and whose mistakes serve simply to reassure us of his humanity (and our own). But Goodwin's integration of myriad sources to tell a clear, accessible, and riveting story deserves the credit for bringing Lincoln home to the reader; for giving us t
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