Lincoln

I finished, last week, Father Abraham by Richard Striner. It's an outstanding book that paints Lincoln the the hagiographic light I have been for years now. From piecing together bits from these Lincoln books, those Lincoln quotations, and other Civil War books, I have been teaching that, no, Lincoln was not a racist, that, no, his goal was always emancipation, not merely to hold together the Union, that, yes, he grew as a man and a President/politician, etc. For instance, how could anyone read of Abe's meetings with Frederick Douglass and not come away with these views? This book confirms all that and more.

It's certainly a book well worth reading, if only from its uplifting story.