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5 books to mark Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial

In the mid-1960s, the "Guinness Book of Records" claimed that more had been written on Abraham Lincoln than on any other figure in world history. (Napoleon was a distant second.) With the bicentennial of his birth this week, Lincoln has surely lengthened his lead. There probably are more new books on Lincoln than all post-World War II presidents combined. Here are some recent favorites:

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